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When googling ozempic statistics, I kept running across articles that at first seemed in favour of it, and did contain the sort of statistics I was looking for, but then subtly diverged into criticising it for "only giving an average of 17% weight loss per year, which means it often gave less than that", "while bariatric surgery could give 60% or more!".
Gastroenterologists are fucking butchers. You don't have to be pro-ozempic, it is still medicating an issue caused by low morality and lack of willpower, but surely a hormone that simply makes you less hungry and therefore can quickly get obesity under control is immensely preferably to cutting your guts open and stitching your small intestine straight to your stomach? Yeah the weight loss is technically less, but it's obviously safer in every single way. And ozempic does mean an adjustment in how you eat, you feel full sooner and hungry less often, so you'll get in the habit of smaller and less frequent meals, whereas bariatric has you eating the same way and the food just not getting digested properly. Remove ozempic from a patient and they may be able to keep their new eating habits. Restore a patient's stomach and they're going to instantly regain the weight because there was no adjustment in habits whatsoever. Gastric surgery also has a 15% rate of complications, because it's major surgery, while ozempic's side effects are things like "nausea" and can be stopped by just discontinuing the drug.
Gastroenterologists are fucking butchers. You don't have to be pro-ozempic, it is still medicating an issue caused by low morality and lack of willpower, but surely a hormone that simply makes you less hungry and therefore can quickly get obesity under control is immensely preferably to cutting your guts open and stitching your small intestine straight to your stomach? Yeah the weight loss is technically less, but it's obviously safer in every single way. And ozempic does mean an adjustment in how you eat, you feel full sooner and hungry less often, so you'll get in the habit of smaller and less frequent meals, whereas bariatric has you eating the same way and the food just not getting digested properly. Remove ozempic from a patient and they may be able to keep their new eating habits. Restore a patient's stomach and they're going to instantly regain the weight because there was no adjustment in habits whatsoever. Gastric surgery also has a 15% rate of complications, because it's major surgery, while ozempic's side effects are things like "nausea" and can be stopped by just discontinuing the drug.