Oh no ozempic.
Perhaps miracles don't happen as often as we are sometimes led to believe.
As miracle weight loss drugs may now be backfiring.
Dozens of lawsuits now are accusing the makers of ozempic
and other popular weight loss medications for failing to let patients know about
their apparently horrible side effects.
Millions of Americans have flocked to a popular class of drugs
known as GLP one agonists, or glucagon like peptide one, which are
prescribed for diabetes and weight loss and have become a blockbuster category
of medications for drug companies.
But now patients are suing Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the two companies that make
drugs within this class of medication, saying they suffered
distressing digestive symptoms such as gallbladder removal or gastroparesis.
After taking the drug.
Attorneys are expecting thousands more people to start making similar claims,
saying they had detrimental effects.
However, in many cases this was what exactly what was suggested
by the people's doctors.
What a terrible situation.
More than five dozen lawsuits accused Novo Nordisk or Eli Lilly of failing to notify
patients about the side effects of their popular diabetes or weight loss drugs.
Those drugs include Novo Nordisk's, Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus,
and Eli Lilly's Trulicity and Monjaro.
These personal injury cases have been centralized
under a federal judge in Philadelphia because they share common elements
involving the same class of drugs, a more among the more than five dozen lawsuits
thus far, Novo Nordisk, maker of Ozempic and Mangawhai, faces the most suits.
In a statement, representatives of Novo Nordisk said the cases are without merit
and the company intends to, quote, vigorously defend against these claims.
The Denmark based company said its GLP one drugs to treat diabetes and weight loss
have been on the market for 13 years and have been studied extensively.
Patient safety is our top priority at Novo Nordisk, and we work closely with
the US Food and Drug Administration to continuously monitor the safety profile of
our medicines, according to the statement.
Novo Nordisk stands behind the safety and efficacy of all our GLP one medicines
when they are used as indicated and when they are taken under the care
of a licensed health care professional, Eli Lilly, which makes and sells
the diabetes drugs Manjaro and Trulicity.
One of my favorite shows back in the early 2000 was that Felicity.
I might have gotten that wrong, said one of.
- My favorite movies, Jumanji. - Jumanji, correct?
That's correct.
Said in a statement that patient safety is the company's top priority.
The drugmaker says it actively monitors, evaluates, and reports safety information
for all of its medicines, they said in a statement.
Quote, our FDA approved labels clearly warn that monjaro and trulicity
may be associated with gastrointestinal adverse reactions, sometimes severe.
These risks were communicated to and widely known by health care providers,
so they're just kind of owning it.
On that statement, like Novo Nordisk, Lilly officials noted, we are
vigorously defending against these claims.
The drugs have proven to be immensely popular with Americans with diabetes
or seeking to lose weight by 2030.
JP Morgan Research forecast 30 million people will use GLP one medications
with sales exceeding $1 billion.
I, for one, am not surprised by this development.
That's why I did not take these drugs and lost 20 pounds the old fashioned way
by being constantly very hungry.
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I also considered taking Mozambican wegovy and I also didn't do it.
And for exactly for this reason I prefer being hungry.
No, in my case, I didn't lose the weight.
I just chose to keep eating and and enjoy the food.
Okay, seriously, part of it is, look, I don't know.
The jury's still out. Look, wait a minute.
They.
This came out and they became enormously popular.
Was it going to get sued at some point? Of course, because there's side effects.
Once they're side effects on a drug that's popular, they're going to get sued.
So the jury is still out in this case, quite literally.
Let's have them go through the process and find out who's right and who's wrong.
And if these things are true, then, you know, then there's going to be a
price to be paid and then you'll all know.
Right.
And by the way, that's one of the upsides of trial lawyers, right.
Trial lawyers test these products.
And and if they've got something wrong, they it's one of the rare vehicles
to be able to check corporate power because the government's out to lunch,
like their government's not going to regulate a goddamn thing.
So that's why the trial lawyers have become de facto regulation.
But it doesn't mean they're right in every case.
So that's why you have the trials and you have to present evidence.
So we'll we'll see.
This will take several years to run through.
But I was worried. It's new.
They people are saying it's amazing.
It's near miraculous and that makes me worry more.
Right.
But a lot of people have lost 20 or 30 pounds.
That part is true.
And to me though, anything that makes me less hungry if it
feels unnatural and obviously it is right.
And and I like food, so.
But but the part that got me intrigued was that maybe it changes how the hormones
that are acting in your body, which then is a much better way to lose weight.
But then when you're changing hormones, you're into sometimes uncharted territory.
And, and and it you just got to be more careful.
So I didn't feel comfortable enough yet taking it.
And this lawsuit makes me think that maybe I was right, but we don't know yet.
I just don't know why you had to say the government is out to lunch.
That made me hungry. Or sorry, out to.
Lunch? Yeah, well, as least as.
So, you know, they're they're drugs. And then there are drugs, right?
There are some drugs, medicines, prescription medicines that are really
helpful, that are really important.
And I don't think we should deny that and not that either of you are.
But then there's also kind of quick fix drugs.
And remember both of these, many of the examples of both of these
have been greenlit by the FDA.
Right.
And I think we also always have to situate this discussion
in relation to the incredible, outsized power of the pharmaceutical industry
and the ways they price fix.
Right.
And Biden saying he's going to deal with that when in the details
are he's not actually dealing with it or going to deal with it.
So the reason why I said all that is because, it's very easy to, to think,
to, to kind of follow the, to, you know, to give in to like the magic bullet of,
like, this drug is good for you.
And we all know the fine print on every drug we take, which is the same, similar
to the fine print we sign on to when we go online onto any platform that basically
says this drug may not actually be good for you in, in a range of different ways.
Right.
So I think the thing that's more important is, and I guess it's the bigger question
that I'm, I'm thinking about is how do we figure out a way for greater
communicability and transparency and disclosure with drugs of any kind?
So it's very clear to people, the ledger like this is what it could do.
This is what this is what it could do. That's negative.
These are the chances that it may do this versus that.
And I think the thing is it all fits into a health system also that's broken.
Where I don't know how many of us go to doctors.
I there are great doctors out there.
Don't get me wrong, where literally the doctor is in front of
a laptop or a screen the whole time, asks a couple questions, types things in,
and then says, here's your prescriptions.
You know, time to go.
Rather than a wellness engagement or a examining of the body,
let alone the body and the mind.
So, you know, this is all an example, a feature of a broken system on.
That point, too.
Of course, there are certain times that medicine is necessary, but I just
as a my own personal perspective, try to avoid that whenever possible.
And my trick for losing the weight was I just really shrunk my stomach
by just slowly eating less and less food.
I kickstarted it with this thing called prolon for five days,
like a fast mimicking.
But then I that that taught me to eat less.
And then ever since, I can have multiple bites of one small thing and just chew it
slower and process it slower, I'll have.
If I want ice cream, I'll have ice cream, but I'll have four little half spoons
and each spoon, I'll take three bites of that and just really take my time with it.
I end up getting as full, I end up getting as many bites of flavor, and you just
have like a fraction of the calories.
And it really has worked for me.
Yeah, I'm doing something similar, just way more extended.
- This one's going to take several years. - Okay.
So okay. But back to the drugs.
Look, there's wonderful drugs out there.
So like, the drug companies have near monopoly power over our politicians.
They extend their patents from five years to 12 years.
It's an outrageous, racket.
They don't allow us to, negotiate drug prices.
Their control over the government is disgusting.
If they are the the largest lobby in the country, even more so than defense
contractors or oil companies or banks.
I mean, that's how powerful.
And in fact, several times politicians have just admitted they run the place.
Right.
And so that's why Barack Obama says, oh, I'm going to do this,
I'm going to do that. And public option.
And Joe Biden said he's going to do the public option, the lower drug prices.
They didn't do any of that.
At the end, Biden keeps bragging about lowering drug prices
on one drug out of tens of thousands.
Right.
So but that doesn't mean that they don't make good drugs.
Some of the drugs are amazing.
Some of the drugs saved my life when I had a skin condition that was very extreme.
Right? So God bless science.
God bless medicine. Ironic, but yes.
Now that doesn't mean every drug works. And guys, this is really important to it.
They might have done nothing wrong and it might still have.
Severe side effects for you because everyone is different.
And so there's but there's a line. And that's what this lawsuit is about.
The line is between, hey, we told you there was some side effects.
And for certain percentage of people it's a low percentage.
But you happen to be in that percentage and you got that side effect.
That's fine. Right then buyer beware.
Be careful how you take it, monitor it, etc..
And then there's a line of no, it damages either everyone or it causes significant
damage that they were not honest about.
Yeah, okay. That's a different thing.
And what lawsuits are about.
But we don't yet know this is just the beginning of it.
It's not the end of it. So jury's out.
We'll see.
So if you're taking those epic or whichever one of these
or Jumanji or Felicity, okay.
Don't panic, consult with your doctor, etc.
And at the same time, don't be flippant either.
Oh, it's drugs. It's going to be fine.
Science has got this figured out. No, there is no science.
There's different corporations that make medicine.
Some are scrupulous, some are not. And they all want to make a ton of money.
Sometimes they do it with great medicine, and sometimes they do it with not so.
- Great and just. - Really quick.
You know, drugs are sort of shortcuts, right?
They sort of promise, you know, you take this stuff happens.
Right.
But, you know, for example, like this drug makes one eat less.
But another option could be to eat well or eat healthier.
No booze, you know. Stop it, stop it.
- Sorry. - You know, like, I. Love my I love.
I love my chocolate chip cookies. What are you doing a little bingo.
You know, you saw my mango outside talking about.
And also, here's another thing we combine.
We should all be skeptical of big pharma, but health providers who are analyzing
drugs in a public health context should be understood and believed for who they are.
We keep combining the two, and skepticism of Big Pharma
is not the same as skepticism of a potential medicine's impact on our health.
Can we end.
This segment is talking about eating healthy?
- Well, I mean. - I'm easier said than done for me.
Too.
You know? Yeah, easier said and not done for me.
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