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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Us his take on safety concerns, supply issues, and alternative care plans in the age of Ozempic.VICE: When did you first encounter Ozempic? Jeff Toll: We had been using these drugs for years with diabetic patients and having a lot of success with not only improving their diabetes but, in many cases, helping them lose a lot of weight. Drug companies did large independent studies just on the weight loss effect, regardless of whether someone was a diabetic or not. I think many of the doctors expected a result like this just because of how profound the weight loss was with these drugs in diabetics. But it was nice for us to see the independent studies for weight loss without seeing any new negative major side effects coming up to realize that they were safe to use for weight loss in non-diabetic patients. There’s a lot of weight-related comorbidities other than diabetes: hypertension, high cholesterol, gout, osteoarthritis. Things like back pain, or knee pain, or hip pain are worse from just being overweight. For a lot of people, getting on these medications to lose weight actually helps several other medical conditions that are not just sugar-related conditions.“For a lot of people, getting on these medications to lose weight actually helps several other medical conditions that are not just sugar-related conditions.” —Jeff TollSince Ozempic catapulted into the zeitgeist, has it come up more often in your practice?We take care of a lot of celebrities, musicians, and athletes, and I think a lot of people are wanting to take advantage of these drugs to try to lose weight when possible, and I think it puts the doctors in a difficult position. In my practice, we do a lot of help with people’s diet, exercise, and other means of losing weight. But the
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