03/18/2026
Here's something that should caution you against weight loss drugs like Ozempic: When you lose weight on these drugs, a significant portion of it is muscle, not fat.
After stopping the drug, clinical trials show that you will gain back 2/3 of the weight you lost within a year, but that weight gain is nearly all fat. The muscle does not come back. This leaves your metabolism even slower than when you started.
This is how you end up on these drugs for the rest of your life, paying $1,000 a month.
The company behind Ozempic generated over $20 billion in a single year, and their internal strategy was not to cure obesity, but to create lifetime patients.
-Dr. Be
