Stephen Fry has revealed how he had began taking Ozempic to drop a few pounds however needed to cease because the drug made him vomit as much as 5 occasions a day.

The actor and comic, 66, stated he received the jab - a therapy initially designed for folks with diabetes - from his physician within the US "years ago".

Speaking on the River Cafe Table 4 podcast, Fry described how the primary week of being on Ozempic reaped "astonishing" outcomes, which made him consider he had discovered a "brilliant" answer to his weight-loss efforts.

"I'm an early adopter of these things," Fry, who was recognized with prostate most cancers in 2018, stated. "And I happened to be in America and I'd read about it."

"I requested my physician in America, my doctor, as they prefer to name them, and he stated, 'I feel I can get you some'.

"He tried me on it and [for] the first week or so I was thinking, 'this is astonishing. Not only do I not want to eat, I don't want any alcohol of any kind. This is going to be brilliant'.

"Then I began feeling sick, and I began feeling sicker and sicker and sicker. I used to be actually throwing up 4, 5 occasions a day and I believed, 'I am unable to do that'. So that is it."

Rapid weight reduction

Back in August 2019, the actor informed BBC Breakfast that after reaching nearly 21 stone in April that yr, he shed five-and -a-half stone in 4 months by strolling loads and consuming sensibly.

It is unknown whether or not the burden loss coincided with the interval when Fry took Ozempic.

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Fry informed the BBC: "I walk a lot and that helps my mood as well, I find. It's not a guaranteed help for mental stress and anxiety or anything else, but it does help me and it means I can listen to audio books as I walk, and podcasts, and you eat up the miles that way and, talking of eating up, eating sensibly."

Ozempic works by suppressing the urge for food and elongates the period of time meals stays within the abdomen, resulting in weight reduction - no less than for so long as you keep it up taking it.

It has been banned as a therapy for weight problems within the UK as a result of excessive demand for the drug inflicting a world scarcity.