Lupron, Truvada, and Ozempic

We are so hasty to medicalize everything—why?

This post is meant to be somewhat informal, conversational, and thought provoking. There has been a lot in the medical news lately that has been both concerning and interesting to me and I’d be very interested to hear your feedback about three drugs: Truvada (I won’t cover that again but refer you to my recent pieces), Lupron, and Ozempic, and the similarities between the three.

You may have heard of the drug Lupron, which has been in the news recently for its use as a “puberty blocker.” Lupron has been around a lot longer than just a few years, as it turns out, and it has not only been under scrutiny for its use in “delaying” (really halting altogether) puberty in so-called transgender youth (male to female transsexual youth) very recently, but it has been under fire for other reasons as well. It turns out that controversy around Lupron is not new.

The use of Lupron as a “puberty blocker” is quite concerning, as it was not manufactured for that purpose, but as a treatment for prostate cancer. What are the long term effects of stopping puberty in its tracks? As Briana Ivy so eloquently elucidated in her interview with Candace Owens, her use of Lupron had the effect of halting her development to the point that her bottom surgery became impossible to perform effectively. She has been left to live with those consequences for the rest of her life. She can’t possibly be its only victim. And we can only consider the long term effects of disrupting normal hormonal production in the body.

Lupron was initially developed, as we mentioned, to treat prostate cancer, and was later marketed to women suffering from endometriosis. Now, however, the use of Lupron has exploded with the advent of “gender affirming care” for youth. What you may not be aware of is that Lupron is at the center of multi million dollar lawsuits, including a recent $875 million settlement. Is this starting to sound familiar? There are over 10,000 plaintiffs filing suit on this drug. Furthermore, there are more than 24,000 adverse reactions to Lupron recorded.

But there is a new and sinister development on the horizon, and that is the advent of at home weight loss medications. The parallel with HIV is not as obscure as it might seem at first; the idea is that there is this issue — obesity, or HIV positivity — that may or may not even have negative health consequences; there are undoubtedly other factors involved—not all fat people are unhealthy and not all thin people are healthy, within a reasonable confidence interval—and it is then treated by a pharmaceutical intervention whose mechanism of action remains entirely unclear, and whose side effects have barely been studied. But the entire concept is quite disturbing, the continued medicalization of the entire population; the idea that “retention in care” in some way is the ultimate goal in life, especially when there are effective noninvasive lifestyle changes that might be sufficient on their own. How messed up is that?

It gets worse. If you look a little further, it turns out that there is a weight loss medication that actually turns into a balloon in your stomach to fill it up and make your lose your appetite. I don’t know if this TV piece specifically picked someone that looked no different between her before and after pictures, but this whole thing seems extremely strange, and I’m pleased that the newscaster seems skeptical. Regardless, the fact that this exists at all is extremely disturbing, because enough people are willing to take straight up speed to lose weight—a balloon might seem mild in comparison. I will admit that I’ve never struggled with my weight, so it is possible I just don’t understand how people might feel that this kind of intervention is necessary.

There are, as we know, lawsuits on Truvada and Lupron. Surely in the future there will be massive lawsuits on Ozempic. Oh but wait — there are already lawsuits on Ozempic for gallbladder issues and for gastroperesis. And there are plenty of lawsuits on Lupron, whose adverse effects are eerily similar to those of Truvada. Here is more information on the harms that have been caused by Lupron among women with endometriosis.

Why is this happening? What is behind this insane push to medicate HIV negative individuals with “anti-HIV” drugs for life as “PrEP”, to give MEDICATION with severe side effects to help people lose weight, to risk the skeletal health of children in order to block their puberties—and for what reason? Is this some kind of Frankenstein kind of thing? What do you suppose is the motivation behind this?

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