Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and all the other new GLP-1 weight loss drugs are able to miraculously shed pounds. But it seems like they may be canceling out the effects of birth control, too.
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA, has just issued a warning to women using these medications. They’re letting them know that dozens of women got pregnant, often unintentionally, while using these drugs.
These drugs work by mimicking hormones like GLP-1 and GIP to curb your appetite, regulate blood sugar, and make your stomach think it’s full so you eat less without feeling like you’re starving all the time. It might also make you put on all that weight you lost in the form of a pregnancy that you perhaps did not want otherwise, you would not have been taking birth