James Cordon said he stopped taking Ozempic – the hugely popular weight loss drug despite struggling for years with binge eating saying "it didn't really work” for him. The 46-year-old Gavin and Stacey star has admitted suffering from food addiction. “I tried Ozempic, and it won’t be surprising to you when you look at me now, that it didn’t really work,” Corden said in a podcast.
“I tried it for a bit, and then what I realized was I was like, ‘Oh no, nothing about my eating has anything to do with being hungry.’ All this does is make you feel not hungry. But I am very rarely eating,” Cordon added.
A popular television host and actor, Corden has previously admitted to being bullied over his weight and said he used to eat jumbo chocolate bars in his car, before turning to Ozempic to help him in his battle to lose weight. Why are weight loss medications ineffective when you have eating disorders? According to experts, Ozempic – a blood sugar-controlling drug – has been used as a popular weight loss shot, and works by mimicking a naturally occurring hormone. As those hormone levels rise, the molecules go to your brain, telling it that you are full.
It also slows digestion by increasing the time it takes for food to leave the body. A new class of weight loss GLP-1 analogues drug, Ozempic reduces appetite as well as cravings for food and slows down food movement through the gut. However, for those who have disorders like binge eating – it may seem attracti.
