Millions of people around the world who want to lose weight are queuing up to buy GLP-1 Weight Loss drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, et al), either on prescription from their doctor, privately through pharmacies, or through the internet. It would appear that only the latter source is considered to be ‘unsafe’ in any way according to the media.
Yet there is growing evidence that these drugs are unsafe, regardless of their origin, and that doctors still do not understand the full extent of the harm they may be causing to users - at this very moment!
Consider this article, from Children’s Health Defense, which asks why patients who are taking weight-loss drugs are losing their hair.
“GLP-1 drugs trigger rapid metabolic stress that shuts down hair growth, leading to thinning, reduced density and delayed-onset shedding. Dermatologists report a consistent pattern of telogen effluvium in GLP-1 users, a condition in which stress pushes large numbers of hair follicles into a resting-and-shedding phase, showing that hair loss reflects internal stress rather than aging or genetics”.
Conventional medicine always discount, even dismisses the known side effects of pharmaceutical drugs. Many serious adverse reactions are already known about GLP-1 drugs - they are linked to muscle and bone loss, emotional blunting, depression, gastroparesis, and fat regain (although even so I wonder how many users of GLP-1 drugs have been routinely told this).
But hair-loss is a new issue (certainly to me). The CHD article goes on to say:
“Clinicians and researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm because they’re seeing the same pattern across diverse GLP-1 users”.
If the alarm is being sounded I have found no evidence that GLP-1 users are being warned about the “alarm”, either by medical authorities, or the mainstream media. But then this is not unusual. In one of my recent articles, I raised the question “how can we know if the pharmaceutical drugs being prescribed today are harming us?” as new, previously unknown adverse drug reactions (like the link between hair loss and GLP-1 drugs) are being found routinely about doctor-prescribed drugs, many of which have been given to patients for many years, sometimes many decades.
The link between Weight-Loss Drugs and hair loss is just another case in point. It should be remembered, of course, that many people taking these drugs want to lose weight in order to look better, not because they wanted to lose their hair!
Yet in a recent Medscape article it was suggested that the safety of weight-loss drugs might be even more uncertain.
“It’s 2026, and we still don’t know much about long-term GLP use”.
Medscape is part of the Conventional Medical Establishment and so is not usually critical of pharmaceutical drugs. It tasks itself with providing access to medical information for healthcare professionals, and is a platform for medical news, drug information, and references to medical journal articles. It continues.
“As GLP-1 receptor agonists continue expanding across obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease, and cardiometabolic care, clinicians are increasingly confronting a pressing question: Does long-term use lead to tolerance, or do apparent “diminishing returns” reflect predictable physiology? It’s a conversation that is evolving quickly as millions of patients move from early weight-loss phases into long-term maintenance”.
What is already becoming clear is that there are many more adverse reactions to GLP-1 drugs that are not mentioned in the Medscape article. Few people outside conventional medicine know about them, and no-one is telling us about them. Check out these links.
Early indications that they cause mental health issues, including suicide.
The USA Federal Court has recently consolidated over 70 lawsuits alleging they are causing vision loss.
There are now suggestions that the drugs might be linked to cancer.
And some patients are reporting that they might be causing dental decay.
I have seen other reports linking GLP-1 drugs to libido, stomach issues, and gum disease. So I believe we could be approaching yet another medical disaster, arising form another heavily promoted “safe and effective” group of pharmaceutical drugs. We should begin to ask whether weight-loss drugs going to be a repeat of the many, regular, drug-based scandals that have happened over the last century?
Another Thalidomide crisis of the 1960’s and 1970’s, that caused thousands of serious birth defects?
Another DES scandal of the 1960’s in which the synthetic hormone was prescribed to about 300,000 pregnant women to prevent miscarriages, but was eventually linked to rare cancers and infertility in the daughters of mothers who took it.
Or another Vioxx scandal of 2004, a drug that was (eventually) found to cause serious heart problems and severe skin conditions, and had to be withdrawn from the market?
Or the similar recall of Bextra in 2005, which was belatedly found to cause serious skin reactions and cardiovascular problems which ultimately led to its withdrawal.
Or the more recent Opioid crisis in the USA, where OxyContin was aggressively marketed leading to widespread opioid addiction, millions of overdoses, and countless deaths.
All these scandals (and many, many more - see here for a much longer list of banned or withdrawn pharmaceutical drugs) illustrate the hidden dangers of prescribed pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, and the ongoing failure of drug safety, and regulatory oversight, in protecting the public.
Conventional medicine and drug scandals have gone side-by-side for a very long time. The pattern of these scandals always seem to be similar.
The promotion of a new ‘wonder’ drug, or ‘magic bullet’,
>>> a scramble by people to take advantage of the “safe and effective” drug on sale,
>>> the gradual realisation that there is no ‘wonder’ or ‘magic’, and little ‘safety’ or ‘effectiveness’ in the drug, >>> serious patient harm eventually comes to light,
>>> demands for compensation.
And so it goes on. It is apparent that we have absolutely no guarantee whatsoever that GLP-1 weight loss drugs will not produce a similar medical scandal in the years to come - or that it is not happening now, at this very moment!
