Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs

✰爆紅的減肥藥Ozempic：胰妥讚大揭秘！

紐時暢銷作家、Stolen Focus作者Joann Hari以親身試藥的第一手經驗，加上調查記者的敏銳觀察，深入探討風靡減重界的新寵Ozempic(胰妥讚)本身潛在的風險與其所帶出的社會議題。

2023 年，新型減肥藥 Ozempic 席捲全球，掀起一股減重熱潮。Ozempic 原先是治療糖尿病的藥物，因其抑制食慾的效果卓越，被廣泛應用於減重。每週注射一次，短短 6-8 週就可能減掉 15% 體重，快速有效的效果讓人趨之若鶩。

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《誰偷走了你的專注力？》作者約翰·海利（Johann Hari）多年來深受肥胖困擾，反覆嘗試節食、健身卻始終無法達到理想體重，更因家族病史，面臨心臟病、糖尿病等健康風險。2023年1月，他開始注射「胰妥讚（Ozempic）」，並在短時間內取得了顯著的減重效果。

然而，海利卻在欣喜之餘，也開始對這款藥物產生疑問與不安。

他深入探索「胰妥讚（Ozempic）」的起源、作用機制和潛在風險，並採訪了眾多該領域的權威專家。在本書中，海利將揭露 Ozempic 背後12種潛在的危機，並檢視「減重」與飲食、心理、健康之間的關係。

作者指出，「胰妥讚（Ozempic）」雖然能帶來快速的減重效果，但卻可能帶來以下風險：

• 噁心、嘔吐、腹瀉等腸胃道副作用
• 低血糖
• 膽結石風險增加
• 胰臟炎風險增加
• 甲狀腺癌風險增加
• 影響維生素和礦物質的吸收
• 成癮風險
• 心理依賴
• 忽視根本的健康問題
• 掩蓋飲食失調
• 加劇社會對體重的焦慮

除了藥物本身的風險之外，作者還探討了「胰妥讚（Ozempic）」對社會和文化帶來的影響。

他認為，「胰妥讚（Ozempic）」可能加劇人們對體重的焦慮，並將瘦身視為一種成功的標誌。這可能導致人們忽視健康的生活方式，並對自己產生不切實際的期望。

本書不僅是一本關於「胰妥讚（Ozempic）」的科普讀物，更是一部關於我們與食物、體重和身體關係的反思之作。

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it – sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies.

In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, one of the new drugs that produces significant weight loss. He wasn't alone – some predictions suggest that in a few years, one in four of the British population will be taking these drugs. While around 80 per cent of diets fail, someone taking one of the new drugs is likely to lose up to a quarter of their body weight in six months. To the drugs' defenders, this is a moment of liberation from a condition that massively increases your chances of diabetes, cancer and an early death.

Still, Hari was wildly conflicted. Can these drugs really be as good as they sound? Are they a magic solution – or a magical illusion? Finding the answer to this high-stakes question led him on a journey from Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo, and to interview the leading experts in the world on these issues. He found that along with the drugs' massive benefits come twelve significant potential risks. He also learned that these drugs radically challenge what we think we know about shame, willpower and healing.

These drugs are about to change our world, for better and for worse. Everybody needs to understand how they work – scientifically, emotionally and culturally. Magic Pill is an essential guide to the revolution that has already begun – and which one leading expert argues could be as transformative as the invention of the smartphone.