One of the realities in medicine is that there will never be a pill or medication that is going to make you thin and it doesn’t end up being poisonous or a scam. This has been the way for decades as fat people who refuse to just stop eating at McDonalds or go to the gym try to find a pill that will do the work for them despite the hekin science and journos saying this will kill you.

The current medication fat people are flocking as a substitute for dieting and exercise is Ozempic which is a treatment for diabetics that fatties flocked as their savior. To their credit Ozempic does work better than all the other scams in the last few decades but its still bad for you if you use solely to lose 500 pounds. Its already discovered this injection will shrink your heart muscle as UA discovered the same effect in rats.

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Trendy weight-loss drugs making headlines for shrinking waistlines may also be shrinking the human heart and other muscles, according to a new University of Alberta study whose authors say should serve as a “cautionary tale” about possible long-term health effects of these drugs.

“If people have been prescribed these drugs, then the benefits should likely far exceed the risks,” says Jason Dyck, lead author on the study, pediatrics professor in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and a member of the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute.

“However, the growing number of people who may be taking these drugs who do not meet the eligibility criteria and who are not at risk have a different risk-reward calculation that they should be made aware of.”

Dyck and his team set out to study why a reported side-effect of the leading weight-loss drug Ozempic is the loss of skeletal muscle.

Not only you are shrinking in organs your skeleton is also shrinking which means taking this liquid meant for diabeteics will make you shorter along with your heart.

Ozempic, known medically as semaglutide, was originally designed to help adult patients with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar. However, this drug — and a host of others in this class of medication — are also being touted for their effectiveness as an anti-obesity medication.

Using mice for the study, the researchers found that heart muscle also decreased in both obese and lean mice. The systemic effect observed in mice was then confirmed in cultured human heart cells.

Dyck, who is the Canada Research Chair in Molecular Medicine and heads up the Cardiovascular Research Centre, says his team did not observe any detrimental functional effects in hearts of mice with smaller hearts and thus would not expect any overt health effects in humans. But he adds that there may be more impact over the long term, or some forms of cardiac stress may have a detrimental effect that wasn’t observed at rest.

“Given the growing number of people taking this drug who have no cardiovascular disease or who are not classified as obese, we suggest that cardiac structure and function be carefully evaluated in previous and ongoing clinical studies.”

The shrinking goes even further in that not only your skeleton and heart are shrinking most of the weight loss you experience with Ozempic is Muscle atrophy.

Dyck’s study comes on the heels of a commentary published in the November issue of The Lancet by an international team of researchers from the U of A, McMaster and Louisiana State University who examined emerging research showing that up to 40 per cent of the weight lost by people using weight-loss drugs is actually muscle.

Carla Prado, a nutrition researcher in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences and lead author on the commentary, explains this rate of muscle decline is significantly higher than what is typically observed with calorie-reduced diets or normal aging and could lead to a host of long-term health issues — including decreased immunity, increased risk of infections and poor wound healing.

“Muscle does much more than just help us move or lift things. It is a powerful organ that keeps us healthy in a number of ways,” she says.

Case in point if you are overweight just accept the doctor saying you need to diet it away. All this medication is doing is going to make you even worse off than just being fat.

You have a choice of either working to become a muscle bound chad or shrink away into a goblin as the internet laughs at your yapping about Ozempic ruining your life.