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Semaglutide | The wonder drug

[ad_1] Nitin Chaddha (name changed), a 44-year-old businessman in Delhi, gained 23 kilos during the Covid pandemic. It affected not just his marital relati­onship, but also his self-esteem. “I couldn’t bear to look at myself in the mirror, or have my pictures taken,” he says. Then, he app­roached the doctor who had been treating his brother for diabetes. His brother is taking Rybelsus, the oral version of Ozempic, both of which contain a revolutionary ingredient called semaglutide, which while helping regulate sugar, also results in weight loss. “My brother lost seven kilos in a few months,” says Chaddha, who is not diabetic but is morbidly obese, with a BMI of 34. “I met his doctor and, under his guidance, used the drug to lose 10 kilos myself.” He has been on Rybelsus for four months ...