Unassuming city that's become America's Ozempic weight loss epicenter - and it isn't LA or NYC READ MORE: More people are QUITTING Ozempic due to side effects By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 12:56 BST, 9 August 2024 | Updated: 13:02 BST, 9 August 2024 e-mail View comments The Ozempic boom has dominated Hollywood and the world of social media influencers looking to drop a few stubborn pounds. It has also given millions of people dealing with obesity a way to turbocharge their weight loss when diet and exercise alone aren’t cutting it.
But, rather than Los Angeles or New York City , it's a very unassuming city that's feeling this boom more than anywhere else in America: Bowling Green, Kentucky . At least four percent of Bowling Green residents have got a prescription to take one of the game-changing drugs, considerably more than the prescription rates in metropolises like New York and Miami, where it's closer to one percent. WEIGHT LOSS HOTSPOT: A very unassuming city that's feeling this boom more than anywhere else in America: Bowling Green, Kentucky A NEW WOMAN: Mary Ellis [right] lost 80 pounds on Ozempic APPLE OF HER EYE: Mary's husband [left] has started taking it too.
The med spa where they get their shots has become so packed they often can't get an appointment That figure, devised by PurpleLab Inc., which tracks prescriptions covered by insurance, does not take into account the number of people getting their medicines from small.