Some experts, however, believe that Ozempic and related drugs are causing a surprising and worrying amount of muscle loss, and drugmakers are working hard to find new therapies that will help better preserve muscle
"We made a deliberate strategic pivot within our weight loss specialty, one that we knew would create near-term financial noise to unlock immense potential for the platform to accelerate at scale," Yemi Okupe, chief financial officer at Hims & Hers, told investors during the company's Q1 earnings call on Monday
The pioneering work in the GLP-1 field was carried out in parallel in the United States and Denmark, the historical centers (along with Canada) of insulin pharmacology, and eventually spawned blockbuster drugs like Victoza, Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus, Trulicity, Mounjaro, and Zepbound that have dominated recent public conversations in science, medicine, and popular culture [1, 2]
Ethics declarations Conflicts of Interest Financial interests: ZM has stock in Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals and served as a consultant for Neptune Medical