Jonquilyn Hill

I'm on rope, 34 pounds down on GLP-1s.

She wasn't alone.

Just about all the major players for these weight loss drugs had commercials during the Super Bowl.

And most of those ads, including Serena's, were for companies that offer knockoff versions of the popular drugs.

So how is that legal exactly?

I'm Jonquan Hill sitting in today.

The sort of sketchy world of compound pharmacies and the GLP-1 symptom that people didn't see coming.

That's coming up on Today Explained from Vox.

Okay, Sydney, I don't know if you watched the Super Bowl, but I did, and it seems like drug companies really want us all to get on GLP-1s.

Has the industry continued to grow, or have we reached peak GLP-1 consumer?

Okay, I'm also a woman in my 30s with the internet, and so I've been just told so many different ways to hate my body.

And this also means that I get a ton of ads from companies like hers and Rowe telling me that they have cheap GLP-1s ready and available for me whenever I want them.

And the demand for the drug is high as people around the world have turned to it for weight loss.

These weight loss drugs, they've exploded in popularity so much so that these drug makers simply can't keep up with the demand.

The other big news in GLP-1 world is that you can now get it in pill form.

You know, it's been an injection up until recently.

When it comes to these compounding pharmacies, are they offering the pills now, too?

Do we know if these compounded versions of GLP-1s, are they safe?

What about effectiveness?

Do you think we're about to see a big explosion in the use of these drugs?