Ozempic has been in the news a lot though coverage was waning a bit to my untrained eye. But now that drug is back with a new trial focusing on the liver.
The new trial is going to ascertain if Ozempic can improve liver health. How that will be determined is by the medicines’ effects on enhanced liver fibrosis, aka scarring, over a 28 week period.
Obviously, that is addiction adjacent and there are other studies about decreased desire for alcohol or nicotine in progress (and probably more planned). And also obviously, alcohol and nicotine have big weight effects so being able to curb excess would help in weight loss.
This is another bit of a blow to beer though, since it is a high calorie alcohol. But the question is, are the people utilizing the drug in the beer buying camp? Or will this hit another spirit or wine harder? And of course, the main two questions are, does Ozempic work not just anecdotally against addiction and if so for how long?