Ozempic and Wegovy are shrinking patients’ muscles at an ‘alarming rate’ and may raise their risk of health problems later in life, a celebrity doctor has warned.
Dr Peter Attia, a physician based in Austin, Texas, warned the drugs were not a ‘panacea’ for weight loss — despite taking Hollywood by storm.
He said that they prompted equal muscle-to-fat loss in patients, which he argued made them metabolically ‘fatter’ because they then had a higher fat-to-muscle percentage.
It comes after other doctors voiced similar fears to DailyMail.com last month, warning the rapid muscle loss puts patients at risk of quick weight-gain once they come off the drugs.
Ozempic triggers muscle loss and can actually make patients fatter, a leading doctor has argued because it leaves them with a higher body fat-to-muscle percentage
The celebrity doctor, pictured above, issued the warning on his podcast The Drive and via his Instagram account (shown above)
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