The politicians CONFIRMED to have taken Ozempic…as yet another leadership candidate admits he used the weight loss drugs

The fat-busting jab utilized by celebrities together with Insurgent Wilson, Sharon Osbourne, Stephen Fry and Elon Musk, has helped hundreds shed extra pounds. 

Now, a number of MPs have confessed to taking the ‘sport altering’ weekly injections too.

Final week, Tory management contender Robert Jenrick revealed he took weight-loss drug Ozempic ‘for a brief time frame’ in a bid to shed the kilos.

The previous immigration minister, who’s bidding to exchange Rishi Sunak, misplaced 4 stone in 12 months after realising he was ‘obese’.

Nevertheless, he is not the one politician who has confirmed to dabble within the weight-loss jab. 

The previous immigration minister, pictured in July final 12 months, has misplaced 4 stone in 12 months after realising he was ‘obese’

Injections of semaglutide, the genetic title for the jabs Ozempic and Wegovy, mimic GLP-1, a hormone made naturally within the physique that helps sluggish the passage of meals by means of the abdomen — which makes individuals really feel much less hungry.

This alters the mind’s urge for food regulation, so that individuals really feel satiated regardless of consuming much less they usually additionally don’t expertise cravings for sugary, fatty deal with meals. 

Because of this, individuals do not eat as a lot and shed extra pounds.

They had been initially designed to deal with kind 2 diabetes, however has gained consideration as a weight-loss drug amongst various celebrities. 

However there have been warnings of great unwanted effects to the drug, in addition to nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Mr Jenrick, 42, stated Ozempic had been ‘useful’ however he ‘did not notably take pleasure in it’ and he has since ‘misplaced weight within the regular method by consuming much less… performing some train’. 

Chatting with Politico about his personal use of Ozempic, the Conservative MP for Newark stated: ‘To be sincere, I used to be obese.

‘I took Ozempic for a brief time frame, did not notably take pleasure in it, nevertheless it was useful.

‘Since then I’ve simply misplaced weight within the regular method by consuming much less, consuming extra healthily, performing some train – going to the fitness center, going operating.

‘I’ve misplaced 4 stone in 12 months.’

Semaglutide, in addition to rival medication liraglutide and tirzepatide, have been hailed as monumental breakthroughs within the conflict on weight problems

Boris Johnson, pictured in 2023, wrote within the Every day Mail about his roller-coaster trip on Ozempic

After the injections began to depart him feeling sick, Boris pictured in 2020, ditched the jabs in favour of ‘train and willpower’

Boris Johnson, 60, additionally admitted to utilizing the drug to shift just a few kilos.  

The previous Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip wrote within the Every day Mail about his roller-coaster trip on Ozempic after it was really useful by a Cupboard colleague.

‘It’s a cinch, stated the physician. All that you must do is inject a tiny dose of clear Ozempic fluid into your stomach, as soon as per week, and hey presto no extra raiding the fridge at 11.30pm for the cheddar and chorizo washed down with half a bottle of wine. 

‘For weeks I jabbed my abdomen, and for weeks it labored. Effortlessly, I pushed apart the puddings and the second helpings. I will need to have been dropping 4 or 5 kilos per week – perhaps extra,’ he wrote. 

However after the injections began to depart him feeling sick he ditched the jabs in favour of ‘train and willpower’.

Nevertheless, he added that he would possibly return when slimming medication are refined: ‘I have a look at my colleagues – leaner however not hungrier – and I hope that if science can do it for them, perhaps sooner or later it will possibly assist me, and everybody else.’ 

Nadine Dorries earlier than she made the choice to leap on the Ozempic bandwagon – her extra weight was principally round her center

Nadine Dorries, 67, former Conservative MP for mid Bedfordshire, admitted that she additionally jumped on the ‘Ozempic bandwagon’. 

When she was nonetheless Tradition Secretary two years in the past, her physician advised her she was pre-diabetic. She was advised to lose ‘at the very least 12lb’.

However even after weight-reduction plan and making it out of the realms of ‘pre-diabetes’ she was advised she nonetheless wanted to shed extra pounds. 

A blood check revealed she had non-alcoholic fatty liver illness — a build-up of fats within the liver widespread within the overweight and obese, which might result in extra severe injury later. 

Dorries took up yoga, pilates and began strolling extra, however nonetheless the scales didn’t transfer. 

Ultimately she began taking Mounjaro, the model title for tirzepatide, a drug that prompts two receptors — GLP-1 (which Ozempic additionally targets) and one other known as GIP — which slows the speed at which meals is digested and lowers blood sugar. 

Like Ozempic, Mounjaro suppresses urge for food and stops you occupied with meals, that means you lose all curiosity in it and eat far lower than you’d usually.

She wrote within the Every day Mail: ‘I had no urge for food, however did not miss meals both. I merely did not give it some thought in the best way I do on a food regimen, when the ever-present sensation of starvation means you are continually questioning when and what you possibly can eat subsequent.’ 

After three weeks on the drug she fainted. She admitted she had simply forgotten to eat for nearly 24 hours.  

However by the top of the primary month she misplaced almost a stone. 

In July she wrote: ‘I will stick with it for a second month (a health care provider from the web site rang me to speak by means of every thing after I put in my second order) after which I will cease.

‘By the point I end I ought to weigh 9st which can put my BMI at 23, within the wholesome vary. However I will not go on. I’ve to pay money for this, which would require a level of self-discipline.’