'If you like food, then that pleasure is gone.'
Semaglutide, the diabetes medication that's skyrocketed in popularity after it turned out to be a strikingly effective weight loss drug, has its drawbacks — and, per one of the researchers who discovered its underlying mechanism, they can be life-altering., scientists who pioneered research into glucagon-like peptide 1 , the hormone mimicked by semaglutide — sold as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsus — reflected on the explosive attention on the drug this year.
"What happens is that you lose your appetite and also the pleasure of eating, and so I think there’s a price to be paid when you do that," said Holst, who teaches at the University of Copenhagen. "If you like food, then that pleasure is gone. The craving for food for some people is taken away when they take GLP-1 drugs."
For some people, he pointed out, that's going to be a very big deal — potentially cutting out one of the greatest pleasures in life. "Once you’ve been on this for a year or two," Holst said, "life is so miserably boring that you can’t stand it any longer and you have to go back to your old life." It's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the drug, and as the Danish doctor notes, keeping people on GLP-1 medications have been an issue since they first hit the market nearly 20 years ago.Anyone paying attention to pop medicine will have noticed that semaglutide-based drugs have become uber-popular, with
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