A lean-looking Elon Musk revealed Wednesday that he makes use of Mounjaro — after beforehand expressing assist for comparable weight-loss medication as a method to curb America’s weight problems epidemic.
The billionaire Tesla, SpaceX and X boss made the admission in a social media put up, the place he included a picture of himself donning a Santa Claus go well with and flowing white beard.
Musk dubbed himself “Ozempic Santa” within the X put up, noting it’s “Like Cocaine Bear, but Santa and Ozempic!”
“Technically, Mounjaro, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it,” he clarified.
Mounjaro, like Ozempic, is a GLP-1 inhibitor – a category of medication developed to assist folks with diabetes regulate their blood glucose and insulin ranges.
Nevertheless, People have more and more been utilizing GLP-1 inhibitors to efficiently shed kilos.
Musk, 53, famous that he prefers Mounjaro to Ozempic as a result of taking “high doses” of the latter drug made him “fart & burp like Barney from the Simpson’s.”
“Mounjaro seems to have fewer side effects and be more effective,” the incoming head of President-elect Donald Trump’s Division of Governmental Effectivity mentioned.
Musk has lengthy argued for widespread use of GLP-1 inhibitors to fight weight problems – a place that clashes with Well being and Human Providers Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stance on the treatment.
Kennedy, 70, has contended that getting People to eat more healthy can be a cheaper approach of dealing with the weight problems disaster.
Musk’s assist for GLP-1 inhibitors has earned him reward from the liberal hosts of “The View,” one in every of whom, Whoopi Goldberg, has additionally admitted taking Mounjaro.
“Elon’s right on this!” Goldberg declared throughout a dialogue earlier this month on the division between the incoming DOGE chief and HHS secretary.
The 69-year-old comic later confirmed off her personal trim determine after revealing to the viewers that she weighed near 300 kilos two years in the past earlier than she began taking Mounjaro.
Musk, who has publicly proclaimed that he doesn’t like figuring out, beforehand admitted to utilizing Wegovy, one other GLP-1 inhibitor, in 2022.
