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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://blogs.mercola.com:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /><title>FDA Investigates Health Risks in Popular Weight Loss Medications</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2024/01/04/fda-investigates-health-risks-in-popular-weight-loss-medications.aspx</link><description>The FDA is examining potential health risks associated with widely used weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound. The investigation focuses on hair loss (alopecia), surgery complications (aspiration) and suicidal ideation. The FDA</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: FDA Investigates Health Risks in Popular Weight Loss Medications</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2024/01/04/fda-investigates-health-risks-in-popular-weight-loss-medications.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#1368030</link><pubDate>2/5/2024 8:04:35 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:1368030</guid><dc:creator>drgradio</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So FDA IS WORRIED ABOUT 422 mentions of patchy hair loss while thousands drop dead in their sleep from the vax they approved? You get it if you are reading this TRUST NO ONE&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: FDA Investigates Health Risks in Popular Weight Loss Medications</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2024/01/04/fda-investigates-health-risks-in-popular-weight-loss-medications.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#1367001</link><pubDate>1/29/2024 5:43:12 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:1367001</guid><dc:creator>Mediagraphy</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Semaglutide, the primary agent in Ozempic and other current weight-loss drugs is recombinant-gene-derived therapy based on a hormone in Gila monster venom. This hormone, exendin-4, works similar to another hormone called GLP-1 found in the digestive tract in humans that regulates blood glucose. But exendin-4 degrades in the body much slower than GLP-1. GLP-1-like substances work on a multitude of organs throughout the body. One of their effects is slowing the rate that the stomach empties. &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.goodrx.com/ozempic/ingredients-make-up-ozempic"&gt;www.goodrx.com/.../ingredients-make-up-ozempic&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87809-4"&gt;www.nature.com/.../s41598-021-87809-4&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.verywellhealth.com/glp1-receptor-agonists-4134034"&gt;www.verywellhealth.com/glp1-receptor-agonists-4134034&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: FDA Investigates Health Risks in Popular Weight Loss Medications</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2024/01/04/fda-investigates-health-risks-in-popular-weight-loss-medications.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#1365977</link><pubDate>1/23/2024 12:46:10 PM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:1365977</guid><dc:creator>ddc777</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Why is every drug wonderful, and then they find the issues out. What happened to drug trials, etc. Are they over?&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: FDA Investigates Health Risks in Popular Weight Loss Medications</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2024/01/04/fda-investigates-health-risks-in-popular-weight-loss-medications.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#1363868</link><pubDate>1/11/2024 2:51:29 PM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:1363868</guid><dc:creator>msorganic</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I go to a concierge integrative medical doctor and she put me on HIPhenolic by orthomolecular. I can say it really does suppress appetite , it can be purchased online&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: FDA Investigates Health Risks in Popular Weight Loss Medications</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2024/01/04/fda-investigates-health-risks-in-popular-weight-loss-medications.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#1362395</link><pubDate>1/4/2024 8:20:54 PM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:1362395</guid><dc:creator>xra6610</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;How many people have to die or be permanently harmed by these Big Pharma drugs for the FDA to actually step in and do something? Probably never, or until litigation costs cut too deeply into their profit margin. Plus it&amp;#39;s known that FDA is owned by Big Pharma.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: FDA Investigates Health Risks in Popular Weight Loss Medications</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2024/01/04/fda-investigates-health-risks-in-popular-weight-loss-medications.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#1362387</link><pubDate>1/4/2024 5:20:19 PM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:1362387</guid><dc:creator>stickybud</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;aspiration of food . . . during surgery&amp;quot; I always understood that surgery is performed with the stomach empty. But I suppose this may not be likely in an emergency,&lt;/p&gt;
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