Apparently even the massive health benefits of losing weight may not be worth the adverse side effects from Ozempic and its kindred weight-loss drugs:
I work with MDs and PhDs across every specialty — psychiatrists, gastroenterologists, cardiologists, nutrition scientists. Not one of them has failed to mention, in hushed tones, the ‘observational adverse events’ they see with GLP-1 drugs.
Why whisper? Because questioning the safety of this medical ‘miracle’ is career suicide in today’s climate.
The pharma-industrial complex, backed by regulatory bodies and media puppets, has turned medicine into a religion where blind faith replaces scientific debate. Some of these ‘whispered’ potential side-effects you may have heard about: Ozempic Face, of course, but also hair loss and diminished libido. Others, you likely haven’t: gastric bezoars (hard indigestible masses that can form in the gut), or suicidal ideation, accelerated aging and more.
But to return to ‘Ozempic Face’: many have assumed that it’s simply the result of reduced facial volume due to weight loss that leaves many people looking older than before. However, based on my extensive professional experience of helping people lose weight over the years, I’ve never seen them look older — only younger.
To be honest, I hadn’t given this issue much thought, as I’ve been more focused on the potentially life-threatening side effects of the drugs.
That changed the day my surgeon told me his patients on GLP-1 medications were ‘aging in fast-forward’, with some looking a decade older in less than a year. He said, their skin didn’t just appear older — it was behaving older, losing elasticity, with more wrinkles and crepiness, and healing more slowly. Even the connective tissue or SMAS (Superficial Musculoaponeurotic System), which structurally supports the face, was becoming thinner and weaker.
It seems that GLP-1 drugs may be accelerating the breakdown of structural proteins like collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid at an alarming rate.
Looks like the Hellmouth is devouring its own even faster than usual. We must all endeavor to put on brave faces and staunch our tears.