Veradermics' VDPHL01, an oral version of the existing drug minoxidil, showed strong results in a late stage clinical trial.
  • patruelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Yep, take a pill that goes in your stomach, absorbed through the intestines, into your blood stream, liver, etc, to grow hair on your head.

    Bullshit.

      • Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2 months

        Another example:

        Ozempic gets injected into subcutaneous fat and works its way through the body, via the liver and heart, to alter the glp hormones in your pancreas and brain.

        I’m sure we could think of lots of other examples where drugs are administered somewhere else to affect different areas.

        OPs argument is as ignorant as flat-earth theorists.

        Edit: and this shows this thread is a sausage-fest, as nobody mentioned either the pill or the morning-after pill which I’m sure most women would have probably said instantly.

        • patruelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          Whoever takes Ozempic is basically a lab rat at this stage. No short term issues have been observed but we don’t know the long term effects.

          • Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2 months

            All medication has the possibility of side effects.

            In the 20 years GLP-1 medication has been used by type-2 diabetes patients (because that’s who they were really for), there have been more positives than negatives. Simple as that. There are side effects but those are better than the well-documented side effects of type-2 (e.g. cardiovascular disease, kidneys, eyes and feet, including the possibility of amputation. And that’s before we get into the social stigma of being morbidly obese, the mental health issues associated with that and the social isolation that often comes with it).bb

    • Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2 months

      Tell us more about how you don’t understand how medication works?