Everywhere I look, journalists and doctors are queuing up and falling over each other in order to praise the latest wonder drug semaglutide (known to most people by the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy).
And there’s another drug called Mounjaro aka tirzepatide. That’s supposed to be a wonder drug too.
These are, so they insist, the best, easiest and classiest way to lose weight.
The Daily Telegraph ran a headline which read ‘My miracle weight loss jab has changed my life and will change the world.’ The journalist who wrote the article says that these drugs “may well change the world – for good.”
And doctors apparently claim that semaglutide and tirzepatide will do all sorts of other wonderful things.
There’s been talk of one or the other of them slowing down the ageing process, preventing cancer, arthritis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. And helping people give up smoking.
Doctors apparently also say that semaglutide will reverse kidney disease, prevent heart failure and reduce previously untreatable high blood pressure. And cut heart attacks and strokes.
It’ll probably solve baldness, spots and dandruff, reduce your heating bills, cut your lawn and protect your car bodywork from seagull droppings.
This stuff sounds nearly as good as the much loved covid-19 vaccine – and what an embarrassment it was for the medical establishment and the world’s journalists when the vaccines turned out to be just as useless and as toxic as I predicted they would be.
But pause a moment.
Do you know of a drug anywhere in the world that doesn’t have dangerous side effects? Have you ever come across a product that cannot kill people?
No, nor me. And I’ve been writing about drugs and drug side effects for over fifty years.
So what can these “change the world” wonder drugs do that the enthusiastic doctors and journalists don’t seem to have mentioned?
Hellbound and Down 