Urgent warning issued to Ozempic users who don't exercise following new study
Just because you've lost some timber through Ozempic jabs doesn't mean you're allowed to sit on the couch for the rest of your life.
A newly-published study in the Sports Medicine journal has found that exercise is still a key element to healthy living, even if you're going down the medicinal weight-loss route.
Outside Online reports that the research took in volunteers who were on similar products to Ozempic, named Victoza and Saxenda (made by Novo Nordisk), for a whole year, both with and without any discernible exercise regimen.
The results will certainly raise a few eyebrows.
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193 adults between the ages of 18 and 65 allowed themselves to be studied.
The attached exercise program involved two group classes per week, featuring 30-minute intervals on bikes, then 15 minutes circuit training. Volunteers had to complete two more workouts in their own time, too, with the majority opting for running, circuits, or cycling.
Everyone involved in the exercises were better off than their study counterparts, although it was the combination of GLP-1 drug-taking and exercise that came out on top.
Unsurprisingly, doing nothing found the worst results.
Moving onto something considerably more horrifying, one 63-year-old bloke from Maryland, was rendered legally blind after dosing up on Ozempic.
Todd Engel, an ex-trucker, developed a rare condition known as non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) in both eyes. He'd been on the jabs since 2023 to ward off his type-2 diabetes.
Within months, he'd lost vision in his right eye, and in October 2024, both had deteriorated irreparably.
Engel told LADbible in an exclusive interview: "The worst part is that I can no longer see my beautiful wife's face again - or the faces of my grandchildren. Had I known it could lead to sudden and permanent blindness, I never would have taken this drug."
HIs attorney Jonathan Orent added: "Irreversible blindness is not side effect. It's a life-altering injury."
Per The Independent, his wife Shelley commented: "It's heartbreaking when our little grandkids have to take his hand and lead him around.
"He can't drive and he can't work, which is major, he can't play ball. It breaks my heart, but my life has changed. Our whole family's life, everything has changed completely. He can't play with our grandkids. Everything in our house has been rearranged and organised."
Dan Seddon