Chasing weight loss dream, many in US seek Ozempic alternatives

"I would work out sometimes three times a day, I was doing hours worth of classes. I was eating really, really clean… and nothing was changing" the 36-year-old esthetician told AFP in a recent interview.

Ozempic by Novo Nordisk is being displayed on a screen alongside pills and a medical vial with a syringe in this photo illustration taken in Brussels, Belgium, on December 3, 2023. (AFP)