Robert Geiss
Twelve kilos less thanks to the weight loss injection
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Robert Geiss has lost weight – and significantly so. The scales show twelve kilograms less. His remedy: the controversial weight loss injection.
Robert Geiss, 60, has lost weight significantly in the last six months. As the millionaire revealed in an interview with the “Bild” newspaper, his weight reduction of around twelve kilograms is not due to more exercise and a more conscious diet, but primarily to the controversial weight loss injection that is currently on everyone’s lips: “I now weigh 85 kilos. That’s my absolute comfortable weight. I don’t want anything more lose weight.” The drug Ozempic “worked wonderfully” for him.
In addition, his “high blood pressure went down,” a side effect of the weight loss injection. Otherwise he “has set almost nothing”. He eats and drinks “actually the same as before, just less overall.” Before taking the medication, he asked many doctors about it. They told him: “If you’ve lost twelve kilos and feel so good and don’t have any side effects, then I should do it.” He still gets the injection once a week. He pays 180 euros for a monthly pack, which he buys in a pharmacy: “In Dubai I don’t need a prescription for it. In Monaco it only works with a prescription that my family doctor gives me.”
A friend of the Geissens from Dubai has now lost 30 kilograms with the injection: “He’s at our feet because we gave him this tip.” His wife Carmen Geiss, 59, has also lost a significant amount of weight in the last few months, around eight kilograms. However, she forgoes the weight-loss injection, although apparently not entirely voluntarily: “I can’t tolerate it. I tried that too back then, but I have very low blood pressure anyway.” She prefers to do her treatments twice a year.
Ozempic is highly controversial
The active ingredient semaglutide is actually a medication for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but is also used as a weight loss aid in certain cases and has been extremely popular with celebrities for some time. Nevertheless, the weight loss injection is considered highly controversial because long-term studies on its use are still missing. Known side effects include nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, low blood pressure, dizziness and, in rare cases, pancreatitis. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the drug also increases the risk of thyroid cancer.