Losing weight is mental as much as it is physical. But now, with a single injection, anyone can drop weight without having to change what they eat or how they live. With seemingly minimal side effects and impressive testimonials, weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Zepbound, Wegovy, and Mounjaro have become all the rage. Just like how tech startups have hitched their wagon to AI, drug manufacturers have hitched their valuations on obesity. But despite their altruistic missions and manufactured nobility, Big Pharma through history have demonstrated that they’re not to be trusted. As the opioid epidemic showed, if you give pharmaceutical companies an inch and they’ll take a mile. In their world, drugs are the hammer and everything is a nail. Their goal is to get as many people on as many drugs at as high of a dose and frequency as possible to keep profits up.