{"id":15239,"date":"2026-01-15T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15239"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:58:15","slug":"ny-times-older-americans-quit-weight-loss-drugs-in-droves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15239","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: “Older Americans Quit Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s the side effects. It even accelerates muscle loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Year after year, Mary Bucklew strategized with a nurse-practitioner about losing weight. \u201cWe tried exercise,\u201d like walking 35 minutes a day, she recalled. \u201cAnd 39,000 different diets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But five pounds would come off and then invariably reappear, said Ms. Bucklew, 75, a public transit retiree in Ocean View, Del. Nothing seemed to make much difference \u2014 until 2023, when her body mass index slightly exceeded 40, the threshold for severe obesity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s this new drug I\u2019d like you to try, if your insurance will pay for it,\u201d the nurse-practitioner advised. She was talking about Ozempic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s the side effects. It even accelerates muscle loss. In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects. Year after year, Mary Bucklew strategized with a nurse-practitioner about losing weight. \u201cWe tried exercise,\u201d like walking 35 minutes a day, she recalled. \u201cAnd 39,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15241,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions\/15241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}