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We have been seeing that Ozempic affects fertility. Now the United Kingdom has begun to take the “Ozempic Babies” seriously

June 10, 2025 by usatoday24

Ozempic He began his career as a drug against diabetes but became one of the most popular medications worldwide when we realized that among its “side effects” was weight loss. Since then we have been detecting other possible effects, positive and negative but surely the most surprising of these is on its effects on fertility. Set deals with the phenomenon of the “Ozempic Babies” The United Kingdom warns. The authority responsible for regulating drugs and health products in the United Kingdom, MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) warned a few days ago of a “new” side effect associated with the consumption of Ozempic, that of an increase in pregnancy probability. While this is the first time that the organism warns about the effect, the first news about this occurred More than a year ago. How it works. Ozempic is the brand with which Danish pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk markets a diabetes treatment based on semaglutida. This compound also serves as a basis for Wegovyname under which the drug oriented to weight loss is marketed. To understand why the same compound can function as a treatment against diabetes and as a thinning we have to understand how it acts in our body. The semaglutida works as an agonist of the peptide receptors similar to glucagon-1 (LPG-1), that is, it works as an analogue of this key hormone in the digestive process. When we eat our body naturally secretes the GLP-1 hormone to transmit two messages. The first to the pancreas, so that it begins to segregate insulin with which to metabolize the sugars of the food. The second to the brain, so that this knows that we are satiated. Drugs like Zepbound and Mounjaro They act similarlyalthough the tirzepatida on which they are based works as a double analogue of LPG-1 and GIP hormones (gastric inhibitor polypeptide). Ozempic Babies. A little over a year ago, dozens of women in treatment with any of these medications They started informing of a strange phenomenon: They were becoming pregnant despite being considered infertile or despite resorting to contraceptives. This phenomenon was soon baptized as the “Ozempic Babies“,” Ozempic babies. “ How do you do it? Since the phenomenon began to document, many wondered how it was possible. There are two mechanisms (alternative or complementary) that can explain this phenomenon. The first has to do with contraceptives, specifically with oral contraceptives. One of Ozempic’s effects is that of slow down our digestionwhich in turn makes nutrients and other compounds absorb more slowly. In the preparation of an oral treatment, absorption speed is an important variable to take into account. Drugs such as contraceptives are designed for specific speeds, if these change too much, treatment can lose efficacy. He Another mechanism that could explain this phenomenon has to do with its slimming effect. As experts also highlight, there is an inverse relationship between obesity and overweight and fertility. It is possible, that by facilitating weight loss the drug is also contributing to increasing the probabilities of pregnancy. A double problem. The problem is double since it not only implies a greater probability of an unwanted pregnancy; also because this type of treatments They are contraindicated Not only for pregnant women, but also in those who seek to be. According to the recommendations, who wants to find a pregnancy should interrupt these treatments At least two months In advance to allow our body to return to normal and avoid unnecessary risks in a process as complex as gestation. Positive effects and negative effects. The “fever” by Ozempic and the drugs of its class began with a side effect: a medication aimed at treating diabetes made those who consumed it lose weight. The demand for these compounds has allowed us to find other possible Side effectspositive and negative, on which we have a greater or lesser degree of certainty. Possible adverse effects documented by the manufacturer itself can find problems such as aggravation of diabetic eye disease, potential allergic reactions and a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms, from nausea to constipation. However, since it also began to be used We have found indications on other possible effects. Some positives such as helping the fight against addictions or possible effects on renal health either cardiovascular. In the negative face we have also found indications of loss of hair and eye problems. In Xataka | “Ozempic face”, “Ozempic language” and “Ozempic teeth”: the other very visible effect of consuming the medicine to lose weight Image | Chemist4u / Camylla Battani

More 41 -year -old mothers babies are born than 25

February 26, 2025 by usatoday24

The demographic engine of Spain It is gripped. Although we walk towards the record of inhabitants, overcoming the 49 millionthe rise is more explained by immigration than by birth. The tables Of births and vegetative balance they reveal that the winds of demographic winter continue to hit the demography. They reflect it The data launched by the INE, which among other keys leave an interesting idea: in our country more mothers’ babies are born with 40 or more years than women who do not reach 25. We have fewer and fewer children. And later. Demographic puncture. The photography of the INE is not a fixed image but shows in any clear a clear trend: Spain suffers a demographic puncture. Population increase is supported largely In the increase of people born abroad, not in a good vegetative balance domestic. On the contrary. That indicator, which makes the difference between births and deaths, entered last year in red numbers: it was negative, in -113,256 people, according to The tables. Evolution of the number of births, according to the data collected by the INE. 24% less births. The graphics They are eloquent. And do not invite precisely to optimism. The INE estimates that in 2023 322,075 births were recorded in Spain, a bad fact whether compared to the historical both in the short and long term. With respect to 2022 it is a 2% setback and if you look further back, a decade ago, the fall is even more pronounced, of 24.1%. In 2013 the balance of birth was quite higher than the current one, of just over 424,400. Mothers with more than 40 years. If there is an eloquent fact in The balance It is the one that shows how there are more and more Spanish who decide to be past mothers. Its number has increased so forcefully throughout the last decade that today there are more births between women who have reached quarantine than among those who are not 25 years old. Retail. The tendency they give off is clear: in 2023 34,554 births of women with 40 or more years were registered compared to 30,298 associated with young people of less than 25. 2021 tableswhich allow further to decrease in detail, they reveal that during that year 7,762 lights of 25 -year -old women were scored compared to the 8,739 of those of 41. Do not go back far back in time to find a radically opposite panorama. Just a decade ago, in 2013, the number of births between women who had not yet blown the 25 candles was 40,916, well above 28,976 starring mothers who passed from 40. Today the latter are already responsible for 10, 7% of births in Spain. Births by mother’s age 2013 2023 Total 424,440 (100%) 322,075 (100%) Less than 25 years 40,916 (9.6%) 30,298 (9.4%) 25 to 39 years 354,548 (83.5%) 257,224 (79.9%) 40 and more years 28,976 (6.8%) 34,554 (10.7%) And mothers with fewer children. Another equally relevant phenomenon is that Spanish have less and less children. In 2022 women resident in Spain had on average 1.16 offspringnothing to do with 2.77 that were reached in the mid -1970s. The average age to which the Spanish became a mother was located two years ago in 33.1. Both data, together with the delivery of older ages, basically respond to the same causes: social, cultural and economic changes. Deepening the keys. In the cocktail, cultural issues and a change of mentality and labor and vital perspectives are mixed. Also instability, which explains to a large extent that the age at which the young Spaniards have increased has increased until they are in 30.3 years on averagethe greatest of the last two decades. With that backdrop, Albert Esteve, director of the Center for Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology, is clear why the age at which children are postponed is postponed. “It comes because of the need that people have to form, to insert themselves into the labor market, to form a couple, to have a stable life,” points to The country. The risk: to delve into a demographic winter that already punishes other nations, Like Japan. Images | Hollie Santos (UNSPLASH) and INE In Xataka | The change in motherhood in Spain is summarized in a fact: 120% more pregnancies of women over 40 years In Xataka | The slow but inexorable “Japanese” of Spain: births have fallen 50% since the Baby Boom time *An earlier version of this article was published in February 2024

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