Billionaire Elon Musk has admitted to using medicine to lose weight. This is nothing new, the indiscretion has emerged several times in newspapers and magazines, fueled by the words of the South African entrepreneur himself who has now revealed it openly.
Posting a photo of him dressed as Santa ClausDonald Trump's right-hand man during the American presidential election campaign, appeared to have lost a lot of weight and described himself as 'Ozempic Santa'. The founder of Space especially those who can afford it financially.
The 53-year-old specifies that he uses the medicine called Mounjarowhich has the same principle as the Ozempic, because “it has fewer side effects and it is more effective” for the goal he has set himself, which is to become thinner. The billionaire has long argued that drugs like Ozempic can help fight the obesity epidemic in the United States.
A position that pits him against Trump's future Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who is convinced that healthy eating is the most economical key to combating the problem. Ozempic and other drugs in the same class, such as Mounjaro, are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for diabetes (other drugs such as Zepbound and Wegovy have also been given the green light for weight loss), but they are also frequently prescribed outside of these diagnostic parameters. I am very expensive medicines e rarely covered by health insurancewith the result that access is limited to those who can afford to shell out a thousand dollars a month, the price of four weekly injections.