elon musk reveals he took weight-loss drug in festive post: ‘ozempic santa’
'technically, mounjaro, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it'
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lean, mean elon musk dressed up as santa claus to show off his slimmed-down figure in a celebratory christmas post. the billionaire shared a photo of himself in the red-and-white costume, hands on hips, in front of a christmas tree with the caption “ozempic santa.”
the tesla, spacex and x boss added in a follow-up post, “like cocaine bear, but santa and ozempic!”
the 53-year-old then clarified, “technically, mounjaro, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it,” and added a laugh-crying emoji.
similar to ozempic, mounjaro is a glp-1 inhibitor, a class of drug developed to help people with type 2 diabetes improve blood sugar levels, according to health canada.
however, it has increasingly been used by non-diabetic people to shed pounds.
musk, who admitted to using wegovy, another glp-1 inhibitor, in 2022, has been calling for widespread use of glp-1 inhibitors to combat obesity.
he wrote in an x post earlier this month: “nothing would do more to improve the health, lifespan and quality of life for americans than making (glp-1 drugs) super low cost to the public. nothing else is even close.”
however, musk’s position is not aligned with soon-to-be department of health and human services head robert f. kennedy’s stance on the medications. kennedy argued that the most cost-effective way of handling the u.s.’s obesity crisis is for americans to eat healthier.
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“we are spending $1.6k a month on this drug,” kennedy said on greg gutfield’s late-night show last month.
“there is a bill right now before congress that will make it available to everybody who is overweight … that alone will cost $3 trillion a year.”
he explained: “if we spend about one fifth of that giving good food, three meals a day, to every man, woman and child in our country, we could solve the obesity and diabetes epidemic overnight.”
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that said, rfk jr. is no longer counting out the drugs, saying in a dec. 12 interview with cnbc, “the first line of response should be lifestyle. it should be eating well, making sure you that you don’t get obese, and that those glp drugs have a place.”
musk noted that he prefers mounjaro because taking “high doses” of ozempic previously made him “fart and burp like barney from the simpsons.”
the incoming head of president-elect donald trump’s department of governmental efficiency added that for him, “mounjaro seems to have fewer side effects and be more effective.”
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