According to ITV, a number of international celebrities have been using the drug for some time, such as the American-South African billionaire Elon Musk, the American reality TV star Kim Kardashian, and the famous British presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
Researchers at the Danish company “Novo Nordisk” have come up with a new drug that will revolutionize the world of medicine, especially for those wishing to lose weight in a safe and effortless way.
And the drug “Wigofi”, which is injected into the body of people once a week, reduces appetite and increases the feeling of satiety without the need to eat a lot of food, which helps to lose weight.
The drug mimics the hormone glugacone, which is secreted by the body after eating, which reduces the desire to eat more meals.
In Britain, pharmacies and hospitals of the British Health Insurance System are expected to make the drug available only to those suffering from obesity-related diseases and those with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 35 for a maximum of two years.
(Body Mass Index) is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of a person’s height in meters.
Dr. Stephen Lawrence, assistant professor at the University of Warwick, told the British ITV network: “A person can lose about 16% of their weight using this drug. This is more than double the percentage provided by previous drugs on the market.”
As for people who suffer from obesity and who are eligible to obtain a drug and gove from the British health insurance, they are those who have prediabetes, patients with diabetes of the second degree, patients with high blood pressure, people with unbalanced or unhealthy cholesterol levels, patients with obstructive sleep apnea and heart patients.
However, it is expected that private pharmacies will allow it to be sold to healthy people who only want to lose weight, at a later stage in the circulation of Wigovy’s medicine.
Novo Nordisk said in a statement that it was working to prepare the drug to be launched in Britain “as soon as possible,” without specifying a specific date.
Celebrities already eat it
According to ITV, a number of international celebrities have been using the drug for some time, such as the American-South African billionaire Elon Musk, the American reality TV star Kim Kardashian, and the famous British presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
According to a previous study on the drug, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Wigofi causes side effects such as nausea and diarrhea, but these effects are “usually transient and mild to moderate in severity before reversing over time.”
Despite the great optimism about the Danish drug, Dr. Lawrence A. Wigoffi stresses that the discovery “is not a quick fix or a substitute for following a healthy lifestyle such as regular physical activity and healthy eating.”
