Younger’s sentiment is echoed across TikTok comment sections, where anti-vax Ozempic users defend their self-medication by emphasising its ‘natural’ origins – often in direct opposition to ‘manufactured’ vaccines. It is online, where anti-vax and wellness discourse is rife, that the increasing ideological weaponisation of alternative medicine is at... See more

As of September, an estimated 1.5 million people in the UK used GLP-1s, with over 90 per cent paying privately. Many prescriptions are available online, allowing people who don’t qualify for the drugs on the NHS to access them for non-traditional reasons, such as chronic pain or recreational weight loss. A black market has also sprung up in... See more