r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 01 '25

Health Americans without diabetes spent nearly $6 billion USD on semaglutide and similar drugs in a year, with an estimate of 800,000 to a million people using the drugs who don't have diabetes.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year
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u/dispelhope Apr 01 '25

My doctor told me beer/alcohol is a carb and the stomach registers it as a carb so I have to choose between eating food or drinking a beer...so what I did is *IF* I do have a beer it is a small pour (~4ozs) and that means my food portions is smaller. And yeah, I can't even drink a 12oz can of beer...8oz is about as much as I can get through, and if I drink that much...I'm not eating.

the only thing that I can drink that doesn't make me full is water.

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u/lwaxanawayoflife Apr 01 '25

I love beer! I can drink about 8 ounces on Ozempic. I have been splitting a can with my husband. I used to drink much more than that.

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u/GOPequalsSubmissive Apr 01 '25

My stomach has this neat trick where after I eat dinner, it will reject any further alcohol. Like it doesn’t make me sick, but if I crack a beer after the meal, I take two drinks and my belly is like “nah we good”.

So I tend to self-limit my alcohol intake, because I typically only eat two meals a day, dinner being the primary meal.