Dr. Marty Makary about Ozempic

"Well, it's got side effects and you're on it for life. It's expensive and we don't know about a major downside to GLP-1 drugs. And that is just like they reduce excess body fat, they also will reduce your muscle. So unless you're eating a high protein diet and exercising like crazy, we may be accelerating muscle loss, which by the way, is the number, muscle mass is the number one predictor of longevity. So we may be- So you'll die younger, but you'll be thin. There's no long-term studies. So we just are told by the pharma, hey, it's safe, it's good, you know. Opioids where OxyContin was approved on a 14-day follow-up study for chronic pain. We cannot trust pharma to tell us what's safe in the big food and big ag."