Meg Tirrell

A ton of money.

I mean, they brought in like $36 billion each last year.

Wow.

From these drugs.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's huge.

And only getting bigger and bigger.

Well, in the nearest term, they're trying to maximize weight loss.

So this is the Reta True Tides of the world, the triple Gs, and Novo has its own answers to that as well.

I think some companies, as we noted, they're trying to work on so you can take it less frequently, so the opposite direction of the daily pill.

But then also trying to make them more tolerable because a lot of people do experience these GI side effects with the medicines.

I hear from doctors maybe 5% to 10% of patients find these side effects so severe that they just don't want to take the drugs.

I mean, so that –

That's something that companies are trying to work on as well.

We've also heard when people lose a lot of weight, particularly very quickly, and if they're not doing weight training along with it, and depending on what their diets are, they can lose a lot of lean muscle mass too.

They lose their muscle.

And this happens when people lose weight in any diet.

You know, you lose a lot of weight quickly on a diet.

You might also lose a lot of lean muscle mass, too.

But some companies are working on ways to try to preserve lean muscle mass while you lose your fat mass.