Jeremy Clarkson shares health update after ditching Ozempic for good

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31-03-2025

Jeremy Clarkson has shared a health update after ditching Ozempic in an effort to lose weight.
We are seeing more and more people taking Ozempic, a medicine designed to be used to help people with type 2 diabetes, as a weight-loss drug.
However, there are seemingly a lot of side effects to losing a lot of weight in a short period of time, with comedian Amy Schumer also opening up about the red flags of the medicine recently.
Clarkson, who will return to our screens in season four of Clarkson's Farm in the near future, also decided to give the weight loss jab a go two years ago.
The presenter had to undergo heart surgery last year, without which doctors said he would have been at high risk of a heart attack.
After just six months on the drug, the former Top Gear host decided to quit after it 'didn't work' and he suffered some nauseating side effects. He is now trying a new medicine in an attempt to shed some pounds.
In his column for The Times, he said: "My body lost the ability to deal with gluttony but once the initial enthusiasm had worn off, my mind still wanted to breakfast on Cadbury Fruit & Nut. This meant I was sick a lot. And after I had vomited, I figured I was empty and could have another bottle and maybe another bar of chocolate too.'
After managing to gain weight in his time on the old medicine, he is now 'microdosing' Mounjaro. It is another popular injectable weight loss medicine, which again has the main purpose of treating type 2 diabetes, although this medicine can actually be prescribed for weight loss, as opposed to Ozempic. And things seem to be going 'better'.
The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host added: "I can open the fridge, look at all the goodies in there and then close it. I haven't lost any weight but it seems inevitable that, as I no longer want to eat my own body weight in chocolate and beef, I will."
Unfortunately, it seems as if he's resigned himself to giving up the chocolatey goodness inside his fridge (where chocolate belongs by the way) and is instead treating himself to luxuries such as snail caviar (yes really) in small portions.
His doctor advised him to give up all the foods you might expect to cause issues with the body, such as red meat and highly processed foods, and it seems as if he is committed to doing so.
Clarkson concluded: "I do feel very well. I have been to see a dietician. The dietician has given me a pretty good list and said: 'don't eat processed food. If it's got more than one ingredient in it, don't eat it.' I feel great."