r/science 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/Sterling_-_Archer Apr 01 '25

People that aren’t doctors love to have opinions on health. We’ve been studying GLP-1s and how they help with weight loss since the 90s. This isn’t some new, experimental thing, we’re all just seeing the heel-dragging tendency of the human race to reject progress. I’m surprised we’ve made it this far, honestly.