Nitin Chaddha (title modified), a 44-year-old businessman in Delhi, gained 23 kilos throughout the Covid pandemic. It affected not simply his marital relationship, but additionally his shallowness. “I couldn’t bear to take a look at myself within the mirror, or have my photos taken,” he says. Then, he approached the physician who had been treating his brother for diabetes. His brother is taking Rybelsus, the oral model of Ozempic, each of which include a revolutionary ingredient referred to as semaglutide, which whereas serving to regulate sugar, additionally ends in weight reduction. “My brother misplaced seven kilos in a number of months,” says Chaddha, who is just not diabetic however is morbidly overweight, with a BMI of 34. “I met his physician and, below his steerage, used the drug to lose 10 kilos myself.” He has been on Rybelsus for 4 months now.