Beware of FAKE Ozempic!!

The shortage of Ozempic and Wegovy has led to the use of knock-off versions of semaglutide. We examine the rise of counterfeit Ozempic and Wegovy, which may be a danger to your health.

0:00 Intro
0:56 Shortage of Ozempic
2:57 Knock-off semaglutide
4:24 Online weight loss programs
5:10 How to protect yourself
6:57 If it's too good to be true...
7:59 What if I need semaglutide?

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[joeking]

Best video I've seen on compounded and fake Ozempic and I've watched many!

[joeking]

My brother got 5 Ozempic pens for $250 from some place online and they looked like the real pens. He was told the place was a government agency who helped people who made less than $60k a year get drugs. I called BS! I just wonder what was really in the pens?

[jellakang]

Thanks for the information I didn’t know that there were different salts available of the product for sale. Trying to get better awareness in the UK of the problem. I know off too many people buying fake Ozempic. I’m a pharmacist in the UK

[metal]

Dear Dr. Yeung:

Long time subscriber making my first comment:

(1) Since Novo won't sell semaglutide to anyone it follows that not some, but ALL compounding pharmacies are getting non-Novo semaglutide.

(2) Obviously, there are semaglutide bases and semaglutide salts. Are non-Novo semaglutide bases available? Yes, they are. (The FDA certainly thinks so and have instructed compounding pharmacies to only use these.)

(3) You show non-Novo semaglutide salts for sale at a very low price and then you "compare" these to retail Novo semaglutide base which is (predictably) expensive. This dataset is unmistakably incomplete as no price for a non-Novo semaglutide base is referenced. Instead, we see a jump to a series of conclusions including that (a) non-Novo semaglutide bases cannot be cheap like the non-Novo salts and further (b) that physicians dispensing compounded semaglutide at a fraction of the price of retail Novo bases are trafficking semaglutide salts contrary to FDA directives. (I don't mind much, but your lawyer can explain why this latter assertion could be a problem.)

(4) There are genuine and serious issues with non-Novo semaglutide sources and people need to be informed but duplicity like the foregoing doesn't really do this.

(5) What bothers me is that I like the channel and the high quality of your videos. This is the first time I've got the feeling that you are not being straight with your audience and it doesn't feel good.

[ambriehl]

If I question my compound pharmacy on the formula I'm prescribed; can they refuse to fill my prescription? Would questioning the active base form cause them to dilute even further?