I lost 42 pounds with Ozempic, but was shaken by the drug's psychological toll

Johann Hari still remembers the strange sensation he felt two days after he first injected himself with Ozempic.

A doctor prescribed the drug for weight loss — a famous side effect of the Type 2 diabetes treatment — in 2023 when Hari weighed 203 pounds and had a body fat percentage of 32%.

Hari’s grandfather died of a heart attack at 44, his uncle in his 60s, and his father underwent a quadruple heart bypass in his 70s. 

Hari didn’t have diabetes and was wary of weight-loss...