Ozempic: Hollywood's New Wonder Drug

America’s Lawyer E74: Farron Cousins fills in for Mike Papantonio on this episode of America's Lawyer, recorded at the Mass Torts Made Perfect biannual legal conference. Ozempic has become almost a pop culture phenomenon. Attorney Cameron Stephenson lays out the significant problems with the "weight loss" drug. There's been a lot of talk in the media, surprisingly recently about P-F-A-S, PFAS chemicals, and honestly, that is surprising. Attorney Madeline Pendley explains the dangers associated with this toxin.

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Ozempic has become almost a pop culture phenomenon. You have people out there suddenly losing weight and everybody says, oh, they're on Ozempic. I've got Cameron Stevenson with me right now, a of a great attorney from our firm here. And Cameron, we're starting to see as per usual with these weight loss drugs, some pretty significant problems with Ozempic. So lay out what we're starting to see here.

Farron, first of all, thank you for having me. Everybody needs to realize that these drugs were designed and approved for a very specific patient population. These drugs were designed and approved to help diabetics type 2 diabetics lower their A1C, their blood sugar. But what these manufacturers didn't tell the FDA is that, hey, we're gonna get it approved for this patient population, but we're gonna go after a much larger group of people. We're not going after just type 2 diabetics. We're going after anybody who wants to lose 10, 15, 20, 25 pounds. We're gonna go get Hollywood. We're gonna go get celebrities. We're gonna pay them to say, this is how I keep the weight off. This is how I lose weight. And so you're right, it is a phenomenon. It is a culture shock, the way that this drug is exploding.

And to kind of show you the vastness of this, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, when they announced Q2 earnings a couple of months ago, their stocks were up 20% in 48 hours. What does that tell you? That means that their earnings shattered the Street's expectations. And if you look into it, the reason that they did is because nobody, nobody knew that these prescriptions were gonna be written in the numbers that they were, except for the companies. And they are making money hand over fist. And what they're not telling people and what they never told the FDA and what they never told doctors, people's primary care physicians, is that these drugs can paralyze your stomach. These drugs can actually cause paralysis of your stomach to where you have a blockage to where you have to go to the ER, to where you have to go to the hospital. And time, time after time, after time, we're seeing these intakes of people saying, I just wanted to lose 20 pounds and now my bowels don't work.

And it's really scary too, because Ozempic, one of the mechanisms in it, it slows the stomach down. So basically it's making your body think, okay, well, hey, I've still got food. I'm not hungry, I don't need to eat. And that is essentially how the whole kind of weight loss thing works. You're just eating less because your stomach's not processing it. And then you have some people, their stomach really can't do a slowdown and so it's just causing nothing. You eat, it sits.

Right.

And the stories that I have read, because this is actually one of the things, surprisingly, the media's done a little bit of reporting, well, they did a little bit of reporting the one big story. And then it's kind of where, where'd the Ozempic story go? The people were describing this horrific pain and it was all the same thing. Yeah, I thought I was gonna lose a little bit of weight because that was the thing in the commercial, oh, it's Ozempic, it's for your A1C, blah, blah, blah, diabetes, and I lost a little bit of weight. They always do that part because look, man, we know a weight loss drug that works and has no side effects, that's the holy grail of the pharmaceutical industry.

One hundred percent.

If you do that, you're set forever.