Marlena
Appearances
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
Well, some people are sort of doing this off and on, like Ozempic, and then they go off Ozempic, and then they take Adderall to suppress their appetite. But also, you were talking about Phenphen earlier, and Phentermine, which is a component of Phenphen, is now... making the rounds again.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
And it's almost like a jacked up version of Adderall where it's like this absolute extreme suppression of your appetite and also gives you all of this energy. So I guess the people that are taking this haven't heard about the massive class action lawsuit that happened with fen-fen after the fact, even after it was taken off the market.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
But this is now trending within, and it's not even something that people, I feel like, are talking about online. It's just something that I'm hearing in my circles and have been offered in my circles, which I did not take up anyone on that offer.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
A hundred percent, because originally they were putting this on the market for people who are obese, which is questionable in and of itself because it is a drug for diabetics. And now you have people who are of average weight who want to take this just so that they can be even skinnier. Right. But the side effects are terrible.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
And the crazy thing, and I think you and I touched on this offline, was about people who... They were showing this connection between people who were on Ozempic to lose weight and then were getting pregnant. And these were also people who had fertility issues. So now...
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
This new wave of sort of like this Ozempic baby boom sparked this conversation and new studies of whether or not now, you know, whether it could be marketed toward women who are having fertility issues. Again, not even knowing what the long-term side effects are.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
And the sort of comedy piece, if you want to call it that, is that if you're going on Ozempic to lose weight and then you get pregnant... Then you're in a weird cycle because you're about to gain back all that weight with your pregnancy.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
So jokes on you, I guess, but it's, it's a, it's a strange culture, but the fact that it's so expensive and that there are back doorways of getting it because people who know people who are doctors, who are dentists, who, whatever, who can just get it, you know, by writing a prescription and are taking it. It's not even being monitored by any sort of medical professional that can
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Why "The Let Them Theory" is Terrible Advice For Women, Plus Celebs and the Dangers of Ozempic
to tell you whether or not this is even something that's right for your valves, like your heart valve.