As a substitute of spreading Christmas cheer, a Santa Claus suit-clad Elon Musk marked the vacation by hyping weight reduction medicine whereas exhibiting off his determine.
On Wednesday, the tech billionaire prompted a stir on his platform X, previously Twitter, when he posted a photograph of himself in entrance of a Christmas tree sporting Santa’s conventional pink go well with and white beard — minus the big, spherical stomach St. Nick is thought for.
“Ozempic Santa,” he captioned the photograph.
The Tesla CEO, whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to co-lead his proposed Department of Government Efficiency after the election, teased in a follow-up post, “Like Cocaine Bear, however Santa and Ozempic!”
Musk clarified in a separate post that he wasn’t really taking Ozempic, however “technically Mounjaro,” although he stated the latter “doesn’t have the identical ring to it.”
Ozempic and Mounjaro are medicines meant to assist folks with diabetes regulate their blood glucose and insulin ranges. Nonetheless, the medicine, that are typically prescribed off-label for weight reduction by well being professionals, have skyrocketed in reputation since celebrities and influencers began touting them as a option to shed kilos.
In one other post, Musk admitted to making an attempt Ozempic first however stated the excessive doses made him “fart & burp like Barney from the Simpson’s.”
“Mounjaro appears to have fewer unwanted effects and be simpler,” he added.
The SpaceX founder’s stance on the controversial medicines notably contrasts with that of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Trump’s choose for the subsequent secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Companies.
Whereas Musk has expressed his help for the widespread use of medication like Ozempic and Mounjaro to deal with America’s weight problems epidemic, Kennedy has argued that getting Individuals to eat more healthy could be simpler.
“If we simply gave good meals, three meals a day, to each man, lady and baby in our nation, we may clear up the weight problems and diabetes epidemic in a single day,” Kennedy told Fox News in October.
He added that the makers of weight reduction medicine are “relying on promoting it to Individuals as a result of we’re so silly and so hooked on medicine.”
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Musk, nonetheless, argued in an X post earlier this month that making the medicine “tremendous low price to the general public” would considerably enhance the well being of Individuals.
“Nothing would do extra to enhance the well being, lifespan and high quality of life for Individuals than making GLP inhibitors tremendous low price to the general public,” he wrote. “Nothing else is even shut.”
