"Musk, 53, noted that he prefers Mounjaro to Ozempic because taking 'high doses' of the latter drug made him 'fart & burp like Barney from the Simpson’s.'"
From "Lean-looking Elon Musk reveals he’s taking Mounjaro for weight loss in festive ‘Ozempic Santa’ post" (NY Post).
December 26, 2024
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Elon is pining for his native veldt and Mounjaro does sound more African, like it was named for the continent's highest peak, but Elon - and Donald - you don't have to say or tweet every single thing that passes through your head (or your intestines).
Half the women in my wife's running group are taking some sort of Ozempic like drug for weight loss.
The most common side effects of Mounjaro are listed below.
Nausea
Diarrhea
Decreased appetite
Vomiting
No thanks. I'll lose weight the old fashioned way: Eat less, exercise more.
Musk seems extremely competent, as he has succeeded in everything important he has set out to accomplish. Consequently, I would have expected him to figure out how to become physically fit through diet and exercise. That he instead resorted to taking a drug with unknown but probably harmful side effects is both surprising and disappointing.
Drugs for weight loss wouldn't work for me. I eat too much, because i like to eat the foods that i like. Its not a matter of "feeling full" or being hungry.
Zukerprick - another social media Billionaire - is health nut, who spends hours lifting weights and excercising.
With his high IQ, I’m surprised that Elon Musk doesn’t simply stop eating until he’s lost the body fat that he wishes to lose. Fasting is an efficient time-tested method of using the “liquid gold”of energy stored as adipose. Plenty of primers on YouTube and X to help individuals go about it safely and effectively.
I saw some other tweet of his where he commented that it was a mistake to lose weight by taking some drug whose long term effects are not yet known. He was probably right but apparently he's had a change of heart. Maybe if you're dining out with Trump on frequent occasions, it's necessary to take a weight loss drug......For a good part of my life, I could eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted and I remained skinny. Then such a happy days ceased. I'm not fat but the only reason I'm not fat is because I go to bed hungry. There are so many good things to eat, and you have to eat them so sparingly or not at all. It makes existence irritating. We do need some kind of drug to inhibit appetite.
With your lack of common I am not surprised you would make such an ignorant comment. Fasting is well known to have the most severe rebound effect. Not everyone responds well to ketosis because while the human body will run on diesel It's actually built for gasoline. Especially the brain which is the most power hungry organ in the body.
In regard to the long-term health effects of these drugs, one thing they currently lack is an exit strategy once you reach your goal. I've heard a chatter that once you get on this class of drug you have to stay on it to keep the weight off. That just opens the door for another drug to take you off the Montero ozympic merry-go-round.
One of my friends took a GLP-1, and he said that when he came off the drug he felt ravenous, his word, and gained almost all the weight back that he had lost while on it.
A non-natural intervention on such a basic metabolic process is unlikely to not have long-term and unforeseen (at this point in time) side effects. We won't have the data for at least another 5 years.
Mounjaro reminds me too much of "Moenjodaro", the "Mound of the Dead" ruins of the Indus Valley Civilization.
Why admit to Ozempic/Mounjaro if you don't admit to fillers, or botox, follicle transplants, or any other cosmetic procedure?
Semaglutide kills your appetite and puts you into a calorie deficit (by limiting your body’s ability to intake energy and lowering your blood sugar). This is how it works.
When you’re calorie deficit for an extended time you lose a lot of weight and if you don’t train your muscles you can lose a lot of them too. Even with training you’re likely to lose muscle mass if calorie deficient enough.
So take a bunch of people who are out of shape and never train, and they will lose muscle too.
One has a clear health benefit, for one thing.
"Mounjaro, like Ozempic, is a GLP-1 inhibitor – a class of drugs developed to help people with diabetes regulate their blood glucose and insulin levels."
And which are NOW priced out of reach of actual diabetics (like my husband) who need some additional help to control their glucose levels. He didn't need weight loss...like those who need to lose the lard because they are fat, lazy and have zero self control...but needed because of a legitimate medical condition.
Fortunately we are able to control blood sugar adequately with a strict diet and exercise. So far....and had to drop the Ozempic$$$$ and add multiple other medications. I highly recommend diet and exercise for your fat condition... instead of taking the lazy easy way out.
Do I sound bitter? Damned right I am. I hope all those self absorbed who drove the price up suffer all sorts of bad consequences. Karma.
This is a bad idea. Musk wasn’t obese. The side effects from these drugs likely exceed the benefits
The next step is presumably prescribing anabolic steroids to combat the muscle wasting from GLP-1s. Then half your customers (the male half) will need aromatase inhibitors to keep them from growing man-boobs as the roids get converted to estrogen. And then PCT drugs at the end of every cycle to try to get the HPT axis up and running again.
It's an endless boom of taking drugs to fix a problem, then more drugs to fix the side effects.
People need to take responsibility for their health but I guess taking drugs is easier until the side effects hit.
This is the best comment. We have changed, years ago, to a high protein, low carb, almost zero sugar diet (with the exception of fresh fruit). Not Keto...that is too extreme and ketosis is not good for diabetic conditions anyway. It takes discipline and research to make food interesting. But...it works!
We don't fast because our Dr said not to do that. However, we do not eat as much as before. Less appetite. Do we "cheat" once in a while. Heck yeah! You can't be a saint all the time :-)
Kilimanjaro neighborhood near equator ideal for launching
is Musk getting ready to coup fatman Trump?
Eli Lilly, the maker of Mounjaro is only up .25% so far today. I Expected a bigger bump.
Has all the makings of the most addictive drug in history
Okay Karen, thanks for the treatise. We already know what the downsides of being morbidly obese are so maybe you shouldn't be so picky about a life-saving intermediate step. Think of it like fracking for natural gas. It still adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere but at a much lower rate so it's the perfect transition fuel to decarbonize.
Lilly is advertising that there is no shame in being slender and healthy.
Making weight loss a moral issue is a moral hazard. Humans did not evolve to live within this much opulent access to hyperpalatable calorie dense inexpensive available everywhere food sources. The modern diet has turned people's gut and brain chemistry upside down making binge eating feel like the only relief if you were out of breath. You're right about cutting out sugar and diet and exercise. Another requirement is to properly feed your gut bacteria with fiber prebiotics probiotics post-biotics etc.
I wish you and your husband all the best in the new year
Yes, I'm bein' followed by a Mounjaro
Mounjaro, Mounjaro
Leapin' and hoppin' on Mounjaro
Mounjaro, Mounjaro
And if I ever lose my paunch
Lose my gut, lose my lunch
Oh, if I ever lose my paunch
Away-hay-hay-hay-hay-hay-hay-hay,
I won't have to diet no more
lol
Ha ha ha, that's pretty good.
I'll take misheard lyrics for $200 Alex.
I agree. We are basically upper paleolothic hunter gathers and that included carrion. I think learning to use fire to prepare food had the greatest impact on gut bacteria until the introduction of processed suger.
Wash away my troubles, wash away my pain
With the reign of Mounjaro,
Wash away my sorrow, wash away my shame
With the reign of Mounjaro,
Chorus]
Ah-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ah-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Musk is not so young, not so active. What would Grok say?
Be in the front half.
Indeed, using these meds when you don't have obesity or diabetes should be viewed the same as sports doping and drug abuse (not legally, but healthwise).
Musk taking Mounjaro, huh? That's another thing he has in common with me. Lucky bastard.
Appropriately, read this joke on Facebook this morning:
Doctor to patient: Stop eating fatty.
Patient: You mean like bacon and donuts?
Doctor: No fatty, stop eating.
Over the past 16 months I've lost 53 pounds. It dropped my A1c to 5.4 and 5.6 in my most recent tests (yea me!). Controlling my food intake, both quantity and quality was the path for me. A bit more active too, in part because I'm not as fat. Sadly many people ask, "Have you been sick?" or "Which drug are you using?".
My opinion, Type 2 people I have known have really bad consequences when they get old. Lots of losses, cut off toes. So these drugs are very good.
Fight Me!
Talk to your doctor about Zepbound, an actual weight loss drug.
It's not like overweight and obese people didn't already want to lose weight and simply hadn't tried. It's an incredible medical breakthrough to have meds that can address this. Kudos to people losing weight without meds, and kudos to people losing weight with meds.
Metformin 500mg twice a day solved my overweight problem.
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