Dr Shawana Vali is shattered. It’s the end of a busy day tending to patients who see her at her invitation-only clinics, where she uses cutting-edge medicine to help an A-list roster of clients look and feel their very best. And right now, that includes prescribing a significant number of them the no-longer-so-secret weight-loss weapon of the rich and famous: semaglutide.
Elon Musk last month told his 116 million Twitter followers that the drug — sold under a number of brand names including Ozempic and Wegovy — was behind his recent slim-down. After a fan wondered “What’s your secret… lifting weights? Eating healthy?” he responded with an honesty this is maybe uncharacteristic of celebrity. His two-word answer: “Fasting” and “Wegovy”.
