A new drug has delivered game-changing results, helping patients lose over twenty percent of their body weight. A percentage change that shatters the previous record for a weight loss drug. In fact, there’s hope that the drug that could even be used to prevent people from becoming obese in the first place.
The New York Times explains:
“An experimental drug has enabled people with obesity or who are overweight to lose about 22.5 percent of their body weight, about 52 pounds on average, in a large trial, the drug’s maker announced on Thursday.
The company, Eli Lilly, has not yet submitted the data for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal or presented them in a public setting. But the claims nonetheless amazed medical experts.
‘Dr. Lee Kaplan, an obesity expert at the Massachusetts General Hospital, said that the drug’s effect ‘appears to be significantly better than any other anti-obesity medication that is currently available in the U.S.’ The results, he added, are ‘very impressive.’
On average, participants in the study weighed 231 pounds at the outset and had a body mass index, or B.M.I. — a commonly used measure of obesity — of 38. (Obesity is defined as a B.M.I. of 30 and higher.)
At the end of the study, those taking the higher doses of the Eli Lilly drug, called tirzepatide, weighed about 180 pounds and had a B.M.I. just below 30, on average. The results far exceed those usually seen in trials of weight-loss medications and are usually seen only in surgical patients.”
According to rumors the drug may cost roughly $1,400 per month once it comes on market. It would also have to be used in conjunction with diet and exercise so it may not be a miracle cure or accessible to everyone. But even still to be able to provide these kind of results is still insanely impressive.
Greatest. Idea. Ever. 
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