Johann Hari: They’re Lying To You About The Side Effects Of Ozempic!

We've not spoken for two years, but I have to say, you look remarkably different.

So, I lost three stone in a year, and there's a secret to that, Stephen.

Johann Hari, the best-selling author who's using his own body...

To unearth the extraordinary benefits and disturbing risks of the new weight-loss drugs.

Ozempic, it is literally the hottest drug in the country right now.

I really worry about the risks of these drugs. You're nine times more likely to get this particular condition, which is excruciatingly painful. And these drugs are working very hard on key parts of your brain. In fact, there are 12 significant risks, and we'll get into that. But it seems extraordinary that we've reached the point where we would inject ourselves with a potentially risky drug to stop us from eating. And we've had 40 years of relentlessly promoting diet and exercise as the only solutions. And only 10% of people really do lose huge amounts of weight on diets and keep it off. But now, we have the most effective tool for self-starvation human beings have ever come up with. When I started taking Ozempic, I was literally 80% less hungry than I normally am. These drugs really do massively reduce or reverse obesity. And a few years from now, we'll have 50% of the population taking it. It's the new miracle drug. Now, this when I go through the 12 big risks, some of which have not really been explained to the public. So, within a year of stopping, you regain 70% of the weight you've lost. Muscle mass loss is a real problem. There's concern that it may be causing suicidal feelings. And then there's one of the really big risks, and it's absolutely grim beyond belief, and that is...

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(laughs) There's a secret to that, Stephen...

Really?

... (laughs) we can dig into. Yeah.

What is the secret?

So for me, it started... It's a kind of weird story. It started in the winter of 2020, so it was that weird period when kind of the world was opening up again after the pandemic. And I'd gained a lot of weight in lockdown, like loads of people. And because of that kind of weird moment of reopening, I went to a party for the first time in, like, I don't know, a year and a half, two years. And it was a party thrown by a kind of famous Hollywood actor. And on the way there, I remember thinking, "Oh, this is gonna be kind of funny, because all these Hollywood people are gonna put on weight as well, right? They're gonna have gained weight. What are they gonna look like?" So, I remember getting there, looking around, and having this really weird feeling. Because it's not just that they hadn't gained weight. Everyone was gaunt, right? Like, everyone looked like their own Snapchat filter. Like, they had...