By now you’ll have likely heard at least one story about someone who got their hands on some off-label diabetes medicine and managed to lose three pounds in two weeks with virtually zero other life changes.
This is Ozempic, or Wegovy, as it’ll come to be known in the UK once it gets here later this year. It’s a drug that was originally developed to help minimise the symptoms of type two diabetes or manage long term weight loss in people struggling with obesity, but over the past year it has turned into something else entirely: liquid gold.
