Whoopi Goldberg and some of her girlfriends Co-host of Thursday's “The View” They found themselves agreeing with Elon Musk's opinion on the weight loss drug Ozempic. This view conflicts with the position of Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the drug.
Mr. Musk, one of President-elect Donald Trump's closest aides, has expressed support for the broader use of Ozempic to curb the U.S. obesity epidemic, while Mr. Kennedy said: They argue that it is more cost-effective to get Americans to eat healthier.
“Elon is right about this!” Goldberg declared, echoing co-host Alyssa Farrar Griffin, after discussing the rift between the next DOGE and HHS chiefs.
Goldberg, 69, showed off her physique by telling the audience that she weighed nearly 300 pounds two years ago, before she started taking Munjaro, a GLP inhibitor similar to Ozempic.
GLP inhibitors are a type of drug that help regulate blood sugar and insulin levels in diabetes, and Americans have been using this group of drugs for weight loss.
“This is not just about food,” Goldberg insisted. “People can be genetically born large.”
The actress and comedian also claimed that President Kennedy's focus on dieting was “embarrassing people.”
“That's what you're trying to do, but maybe you don't realize you're doing it. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't work for anyone. “So when you say something like that, you're saying you don't know, you don't realize what you're doing to people,” Goldberg said.
Later, Joy Behar also pointed out that Ozempic's “side effects are not terrible.”
Musk, the billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, discussed for a long time The benefits of GLP inhibitors outweigh the potential costs.
“Nothing will improve the health, longevity, and quality of life of Americans more than making GLP inhibitors available to the public at ultra-low prices,” Musk wrote on Wednesday. “There's nothing else like it.”
Meanwhile, in a recent interview with Fox News' Greg Gutfeld, President Kennedy mocked the high cost of making Ozempic available to everyone who is overweight, saying, “$3 trillion a year. ” He claimed that it would take.
“If we spent a fifth of that on giving every man, woman and child in the country three meals a day, we could solve the obesity and diabetes epidemic overnight,” said the 70-year-old former environmental lawyer. said.
