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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Ozempic is the hot drug for weight loss, but its original purpose was to help diabetics – putting its creator in a bit of a bind. Wired contributor Virginia Heffernan joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is stretched thin as demand for the drug skyrockets – and how President Trump’s designs on Greenland might actually affect supply. Her article is “The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell.”
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1:24.6 | OZempic was originally developed to help people with type 2 diabetes, |
1:28.7 | and it can. But its most celebrated side effect, significant diminishment of appetite that often |
1:34.5 | leads to weight loss, has convinced many millions of people that they want this drug or a |
1:39.0 | competitor in the same class. And that has created some conflicts for Novo Nordisk, which has long operated first and foremost |
1:45.9 | in service to people with diabetes, including those who cannot live without supplemental |
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