Zepbound, which is already sold by Eli Lilly as the diabetes treatment Mounjaro, was shown to reduce patients’ weight by as much as one-fifth in drug trials.
I’m guessing they’ll be off the market before a generic version can be made. I might just be prejudiced by living through the Fen-phen craze, but I fully expect they’ll find most of these weight loss drugs cause some sort of health issues.
I fully expect they’ll find most of these weight loss drugs cause some sort of health issues.
But will these health issues be worse than obesity itself? Almost all medicines have side effects, the job is figuring out which is worse: the condition they treat or the side effects from the medicine.
I’m guessing they’ll be off the market before a generic version can be made. I might just be prejudiced by living through the Fen-phen craze, but I fully expect they’ll find most of these weight loss drugs cause some sort of health issues.
But will these health issues be worse than obesity itself? Almost all medicines have side effects, the job is figuring out which is worse: the condition they treat or the side effects from the medicine.