Why Ozempic is Big Pharma’s Latest Extortion

The way i got an ad for Adderall and then an ad for Semaglutide (Hers) on this video before starting lol

A coupl things come to mind:
1) every kid wants to hear "merry Christmas, we got you an investment!" I'm not sure the message formation on that one is a seller.
2) you could produce insulin at state universities and give chemistry and engineering grads useful experience.
Similarly, you could issue bonds and have residents and universities combine to develop drugs. I mean it isn't as if universities aren't addicted to research grants from government. The will to accomplish that which is difficult is what is required.

So glad to see someone talking about Big Pharma. People need to know its all about business, not ethics.

Your government could easily cover the costs of researching new health drugs but corporations have a stranglehold on the whole US system and you just reinforced that view.

Again your government could stop all of this by law to control the abuse of drugs and the costs like most other countries in first world. Your political/corporate corrruption is at the heart of most issues in the US, including this one.

I wonder how long its going to be until people who take Ozempic for weight loss discover Research Chemicals and will resort to taking them for weight loss. If you're reading this and consindering doing this:
Well, I take them myself, I am not in the position to tell you not to do them. Just please do your research, inform yourself about the chemical you are consuming and remember: You are the guinea pig. There are usually no known long term side effects because people haven't taken them long enough for long term side effects to occur. You could very well develop cancer, Alzheimer or other serious illnesses and you should be aware of these risks. It will be much better and healthier to just loose weight the "hard" way by being disciplined, eating healthy and consuming less calories than you burn.

I feel like you have some bias because of what you mentioned at the end of the video, that made you take a step out into a very technical field that you have no training on. I have no dog in this fight, but have seen a lot of very smart people from this field saying a lot of great things about these drugs.

Imagine paying a grand a year instead of eating some salads

Usually like your videos but this one is misplaced.

A little bit of nausea and vomiting to make someone lose weight and probably add 20 years to their life is absolutely worth it. Just because you were able to better yourself via exercise and proper eating habits does not mean everyone else can.

Just lame fear mongering

I hate Eli Lilly so much. Lilly literally made a generic version of the insulin they gatekeep. As a T1D it sucks so much to have to pay double for insulin that is supposed to be cheaper, and btw Kamala and Joe are liars, they will only lower insulin for Medicare Part D holders, meaning it’s only for retired seniors and I still have to pay $45-55 per vial of insulin I purchase, 1 vial lasts about 1 week to 2 weeks tops.

You spent 10 minutes telling me in depth how this is the greatest system possible and spent the rest of the video proving that idea wrong

i find the framing of these drugs as a substitute for willpower kinda disappointing. Scientific evidence has repeatedly proven over the last 5 decades or so that diet and exercise don't work on populations. Yes, like this guy there are always some who work hard and stick to it and lose weight. But for every one of them there's someone else who work hard and stick to it and gains weight. and a whole bunch of people who work hard and stick to it and stay the same. And even of those who do lose weight as a result of diet and exercise, a great many will have put on at least as much or more 5 to 10 years later. There's a reason the population has been getting fatter and fatter over the last decades, even as we all know the advice to eat less and exercise more. It's because the advice doesn't work. Being fat isn't a result of a lack of willpower. It's a result of a changing environment. Humans have as much willpower now as we ever have. Its the world we live in thats changed. And yes, drugs are not the best answer. Changing our ennnnviroment back to one that doesn't make us fat and ill would be vastly better. But drugs are the most profitable answer

The US drug market and its health system are huge examples of market failures.

You can say a lot of bad about these drugs, but it isn't black and white. These drugs have also done a lot of good and have been revolutionary treatments. The pharmaceutical companies didn't make people fat and diabetic.

Why the f should I pay fees for my kids savings accounts?

The price for a new drug is a myth, big pharma inflates those estimates for a reason. Usually, basic research is publicly funded and than kept going by startups which are bought by big pharma. Profits along the way inflate the real development cost

Americans will do anything but stop consuming ultra processed foods fr hahaha

This is just more of a motivator to keep running, cycling, and swimming. Some able-bodied people just don’t want to put the work in, putting themselves at risk for health issues, and side effects for meds that make them even sicker. 😟

Feels like there's a lotta judgement here about people not having enough self-control. Personal bias?

If shaming people about their weight, and how all they need is better self-control, worked, most overweight people would not be overweight.

Soma.

There is not a wonder drug that will solve your probles easy or painlessly if someone says they found one they are lying it doesn't exist

Disappointed to see the big pharma bad narrative coming from you

Is it really a lack of discipline when food is caloricly dense in the places that obsessity is an issue? No other point in humane existence has food been so easy to get and with so much energy in it.

You do not understand the pharma industry outside of the US.
Nearly all of your understanding does apply outside of the US.

Using Normotim has helped me stay focused on my goals instead of turning to food for relief.

Why are you making a video about this and not the other aspects of the weight loss industry including untested supplements, fat diets such a slim fast, etc. all of those make billions of dollars, but I don’t see a video on that

Have been on Wegovy for a few months and genuinely have found it life changing. Not because I immediately lost weight, but because for the first time in my life I've realized you can be satisfied with eating food before the idea of eating more becomes uncomfortable. Like I have truly never thought about food or eating in the way I am suddenly capable of doing now. It sincerely feels like some part of my brain or body just wasn't doing what it needed to do before. It's much more nuanced than 'lack of appetite', which I do ALSO get, but rather the idea of eating a reasonable amount of food and feeling 'satisfied', which I don't think I've ever felt before.

I suppose will power hypothetically could overcome the fact that I've apparently been going my entire life being unable to be satisfied by eating food, only wanting to stop when it literally became painful to do so, but while it's cool that will power worked for you it is a frustrating sentiment to hear in your video, especially from someone else who has apparently struggled with weight in the past.

The video itself had a lot of interesting details and I appreciate it. I agree I think the root cause is cultural. We were not evolved to need to constantly resist marketing telling us what to eat all the time and to know how to sort through over processed food for the good healthy stuff. But also in a lifetime of struggling with weight this one of the first things to make me feel like I might be able to get it off and keep it off. I hate that failures in society creates one problem and then I need to buy a solution for it instead of the world just being better, but also, that's where we're at...

The government not being able to foot the bill for a lot of R&D simply isn’t true. A ton of the initial r&d performed is in academia, which government funding. Most rare disease companies operate on government subsidies.

We're all just money bags. They don't care for cures. Why cure, when they can make us sick for renewable profit....

Love this channel.
Totally unrelated, something about the beginning of this vid gave me Nathan For You segment vibes. 😂

“There’s no such thing as a miracle cure”

One word: exercise.

So annoying that pharmaceutical companies are allowed to bribe doctors and show so many ads

Alot of the same people in the comments who are denouncing Big Pharma are the same people who pushed for getting COVID vaccines from Big Pharma.

Our healthcare system is so broken. Medicare For All is not enough, we need total nationalization of this evil system.

To end the video with that statement was honestly kind of gross. It just plays into people who bariatric surgery or take weight loss medication as taking the “easy” way out.

Billions in grants are paid for by the tax payer every year for research- governments are certainly involved. The “government “is getting paid under the table to not intervene.

No way i got an ad at the end for getting ozempic without a dr 🤦‍♀️💀💀

“Patient pool would be big enough”… lol I see what you did there

the only winning move is not to play, get healthy, eat healthy, workout, especially resistance training

Laughable to say that there’s no money when our government has no problem sending billions to oligarchs in the Ukraine

I handle health insurance for a living, and holy mother of god, am I sick and tired of explaining to seniors why Medicare won't cover their Mounjaro or Wegovy. Medicare doesn't pay for scam products that don't work. If you're not able to shell out thousands of dollars on the latest fake health trend, tough shit. Don't make the rest of us foot the bill for your bullshit.

That's so disgusting. I wish I could get a shot that can help me gain weight😮

Willpower isnt being medicated, and the side effects of these drugs are gonna have as huge of a suit as the opioids did.

What if, and hear me out here, WE DIDNT GIVE REWARDS FOR MAKING MEDICINE you know because this is peoples LIVES we are talking about and shouldn’t be under control of fucking capital.
Genuinely pathetic how we force every aspect of our lives to only work and exist through money because it helps a few at the harm of many

"Doctors work within the Hippocratic oath"? The history of physicians endorsing smoking, eugenics and abortion shows that isn't so.

I don't think weight loss without drugs is as easy as you say.

From what I understand, 20% of people who try to lose weight, lose at least 10% of their weight. And within five years, 80% of lost weight is regained.

So these supposedly successful people will have lost only 2% of their weight after five years. That hardly seems successful!

I don't believe we actually know how to lose weight in any way other than these questionable drugs, which are potentially dangerous in the long term.