Is Gelatin Really Nature’s Ozempic?
The latest viral trend taking over social media has people turning to gelatin, dubbed “nature’s Ozempic,” to curb their appetites without a GLP-1 prescription — but medical experts say claims of gelatin’s effectiveness as a weight loss aid are overstated.
People who have tried the trend — which involves mixing a spoonful of gelatin into warm water and drinking it 15 to 30 minutes before a meal — have claimed in social media videos that the beverage helps people lose weight by forming a gel in the stomach and supposedly taking up space, signaling to the brain that they’re getting full.
According to Dr. Stephanie Widmer, an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist, gelatin “may be a quick fix but is not a magic bullet for weight loss.”
Excerpted from Good Morning America
