Hollywood's blockbuster weight loss drugs are becoming all the rage among affluent Indians

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy, the revolutionary new drugs for weight loss used by the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Hollywood stars, have become all the rage among the country’s swish set, too.

According to doctors and fitness experts, queries come in every other day from (well-heeled) patients, asking whether they can take the expensive, injectable drugs to shed those stubborn kilos. “It’s coming up in conversations everywhere. Patients ask me about it all the time,” says Ambrish Mithal, chairman and head of endocrinology, Max Healthcare. There are a lot of people interested in taking Ozempic because “the weight loss is so dramatic”, says Kiran Sethi, medical director, Isya Aesthetics.

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And if the affluent had to take the trouble to fly abroad to get those prized Pfizer shots during the pandemic, these injections are being sourced here. “Mounjaro’s usually sourced from Dubai, and Ozempic from the US. It’s not a prescribed drug in India so you can’t get it at a chemist here. But a fair number of people travel abroad regularly or they have people visiting them,” says Mubai-based Vishakha Shivdasani, a physician practicing functional medicine to reverse obesity, fatty liver, etc., who has patients ask about the drugs regularly though she does not prescribe it herself.

If you are willing and able to pay, there are also suppliers who offer to deliver it to you, provided there is a minimum order. Two suppliers, contacted by ET via an online wholesale marketplace, offered to sell 1 mg of Ozempic for Rs 23,000 and Mounjaro at Rs 7,000 for 2.5 mg, going up to Rs 24,000 for