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Allure of the Antihero Why we’re drawn to characters who act badly—and what that says about usHow we feel about ourselves affects our response to morally ambiguous characters, such as Don Draper of Mad Men. Photo courtesy of AMC
Dexter, the honorable serial killer. Walter White, the meth-cooking family man. Arya Stark, the young assassin who seeks to avenge her slain family. Many contemporary television shows, movies, and books feature characters we root for despite their despicable acts. The wild popularity of shows like Mad Men and Game of Thrones suggests such morally ambiguous characters—who possess an enthralling mix of good and bad traits—are engaging audiences more than ever before. The question Mina Tsay-Vogel wants to answer is: Why?
Mina Tsay-Vogel’s research on the psychological and social effects of mass media has included studies on reality TV, Harry Potter fan communities, and morally ambiguous characters.
To make sense of viewers’ engagement with shows and stories featuring morally complex characters, Tsay-Vogel, an assistant professor of communication at Boston University’s College of Communication (COM), is looking beyond the past research that suggests viewers get the most enjoyment from watching good characters win and bad characters lose. She says this argument is too simplistic for studying narratives that are constructed to encourage viewers or readers to empathize with morally complex characters. For example, Dexter (from Showtime’s hit show by the same name) is a serial killer, but there’s a compelling reason for his depravity, says Tsay-Vogel, also the codirector of the Communication Research Center at COM. “You learn about his childhood and you start empathizing” with him—as a child he witnessed his mother’s murder; as an adult, he helps stop (and take out) other killers. Characters like Dexter complicate our concept of good, “so, you’re not always rooting for good and hoping that agony and suffering happens” to characters who do bad things.
In a 2013 study published in the journal Mass Communication and Society, Tsay-Vogel and K. Maja Krakowiak, an associate professor of communication at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, tested how character motivation and a story’s outcome influence how we feel about characters. They asked two groups of study participants ages 19 to 30 to read different versions of a story in which the protagonist commits an action (which Tsay-Vogel is keeping secret as it is also featured in an ongoing study) that seems negative: In one version, his motivation is selfish, while in the other, it is altruistic. Tsay-Vogel and Krakowiak learned that when a character commits a negative action but is motivated by altruism, we are more likely to see that character in a positive light. In the AMC show Breaking Bad, for example, chemistry teacher Walter White begins to cook meth—but the fact that he has been diagnosed with cancer and is motivated by the desire to ensure that his family is provided for after his death makes him an empathetic character.
“Morally ambiguous characters can actually make people feel better about their own actions in the real world.”Mina Tsay-Vogel
The researchers also found that people tend to see a character in a more positive light if the story outcome is positive, even if the character’s action is selfishly motivated. In the Harry Potter series, for example, wizard Severus Snape envied the eponymous hero’s father, which indirectly led to the parents’ murder by Lord Voldemort—but Snape ultimately helped defeat Voldemort, for which most Potter fans (and even Harry Potter) considered him a hero.
When justifying a character’s actions in this way, we are committing moral disengagement, a condition Tsay-Vogel and Krakowiak explored in a study published in the journal Human Communication Research in 2023. This study tested how our feelings about ourselves play into our responses to morally complex characters. They asked one group of participants to write a series of actions they were proud of, and a second group to write a series of behaviors of which they were ashamed. Those who were primed to feel bad about themselves before reading about a morally ambiguous character enjoyed the story more than those who felt good about themselves.
So, “if you had a really bad day and did something you weren’t proud of, you could go home and turn on a show that features moral ambiguity and bad characters—and feel significantly better about yourself,” Tsay-Vogel says. A viewer could watch Dexter, for example, and think, At least I’m not as bad as Dexter. “Morally ambiguous characters,” she says, “can actually make people feel better about their own actions in the real world. We call this term morality salience, which is making people aware of their own moral actions” and how our standards influence our engagement with morally complex characters.
When we watch a character commit a negative action and we excuse or justify their behavior, we are loosening our moral standards for the sake of enjoying the story, Tsay-Vogel says. We don’t all morally disengage to the same degree, however, and some of us don’t morally disengage at all. Tsay-Vogel has found that our ability to justify a character’s actions is driven largely by the degree to which we identify with that character, as well as how much we think we are similar to that character. Viewers who see the world and a character’s motivations through the lens of that character are more likely to morally disengage and enjoy the viewing experience.
Our reasons for spending a few hours watching a show play a part, too—are we kicking back and having fun or trying to get our gray matter whirring? In a 2023 study published in the journal Communication Research Reports, Tsay-Vogel and Krakowiak discovered that audiences who primarily seek pleasure from entertainment are more likely to morally disengage or justify characters’ immoral behaviors, which allows them to feel greater enjoyment. Those who are more focused on seeking meaning from entertainment are less tolerant of characters’ negative actions (possibly because these viewers have stricter moral standards), so they experience less enjoyment.
For content creators, there’s a valuable lesson here: “If you show characters doing a morally ambiguous action, but you don’t focus on the altruism behind it, or if the outcome is negative, you are not going to get people to like the characters or enjoy what they are seeing because they can’t justify the characters’ actions,” Tsay-Vogel says. To keep viewers interested, she suggests “focusing on character motivations and ensuring the story outcome is very clear; so even if there are ambiguous actions, they still produce relatively positive outcomes.”
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Work Burnout Signs: What To Look For And What To Do About It
Work Burnout Signs: What to Look for and What to Do about It The Great Resignation continues to shake up the American job market as workers contend with pandemic stresses, burnout, and loneliness
Job Burnout
Work Burnout Signs: What to Look for and What to Do about It The Great Resignation continues to shake up the American job market as workers contend with pandemic stresses, burnout, and lonelinessSick and tired of your nine-to-five, or is your nine-to-five literally making you sick and tired? If you answered yes to either question, you’re not alone. After two years of extraordinary stresses and pressures—and way too many back-to-back Zoom calls—many American employees are exhausted and heading for the exit door. A 2023 American Psychological Association study found 79 percent of workers had experienced job-related stress in the past month. And, according to Willis Towers Watson’s 2023 Global Benefits Attitudes Survey, many are voting with their feet, walking away from their jobs and shaking up their careers: 44 percent of the nation’s workers are actively seeking new jobs or thinking about a fresh start. The media has called it the Great Resignation.
Constance Noonan Hadley says burnout involves three symptoms: energy depletion and exhaustion, depersonalization and cynicism, and reduced efficacy. Photo courtesy of Hadley
Organizational psychologist Constance Noonan Hadley believes workplace culture could be a factor in declining worker health and the mass exodus: “Loneliness and burnout—both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—are key drivers of the Great Resignation,” she says, “or Great Rethinking, as I like to call it.”
Hadley, a Boston University Questrom School of Business lecturer in management and organizations, points to a new study from Microsoft that surveyed 31,000 people across 31 countries, revealing that 55 percent of hybrid employees—those mixing working at home and in an office—and 50 percent of all-remote employees reported feeling lonelier at work than before the pandemic. “The evidence is there that people are tired of feeling disconnected and burned out, and they are seeking a more balanced and health-forward work situation,” says Hadley.
The Brink asked Hadley to share some research-based techniques to identify workplace burnout and loneliness—and ways for individuals and businesses to address them.
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The Brink:
How do you define workplace burnout and loneliness?
The Brink:
What do these experiences look like and how can someone identify if they are experiencing them?
Hadley: Let’s start with recognizing burnout. Understanding the following symptoms can help professionals identify burnout in themselves:
Burnout Symptoms Energy Depletion and ExhaustionWe have all had those days when it is hard to get out of bed in the morning and get started on work. We also know what it is like to push hard on a particular project and look forward to a few days off to recuperate. But the kind of exhaustion associated with burnout is more chronic and nonspecific. It doesn’t go away after a vacation, and it is not tied to a particular project or deadline. It feels like a persistent fog weighing you down mentally and physically.
Depersonalization and CynicismIn addition to that kind of debilitating exhaustion, burnout is associated with feeling detached and distanced from a job or even becoming cynical about it. Importantly, burnout is associated with a change in those sentiments. For example, perhaps you are a doctor and you used to find great joy in helping others, but now you feel more numb, or less empathetic, toward your patients. You might even start to question whether anything you are doing is making a difference. In a business context, you might begin to feel disinterested in your work or start to question the motives and intentions of your company. Simply put, what used to motivate and inspire you about your job no longer has the same effect.
Reduced EfficacyThe third component of burnout is a drop in work performance. Perhaps you used to be great at your job and now you feel yourself slipping. It may not even be something that your boss or clients notice, but you know the difference in your work quality. Or you may be maintaining the same peak performance but at a greater cost: it now takes more work, more concentration, and more effort than before.
Burnout is defined by having all three of these symptoms at the same time. Otherwise, you might not be burned out—but you could still need to make some changes. For example, if you are experiencing persistent exhaustion, you might be suffering from overwork or overextension that requires cutting back your hours or responsibilities. Or, if you are feeling more cynical and distanced from your work, you might need to find ways to reinvigorate your job tasks or reaffirm your belief in your organization’s mission. If you’re experiencing a drop in performance but don’t have any of the other symptoms of burnout, think about what has changed in your approach to work. Identifying what is actually going on with you is the first step to figuring out what to do about it.
Loneliness SymptomsIn my research, people often say their coworkers are nice, but that they don’t really know them well. This has been especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic when so many professionals have only interacted with their colleagues virtually. Yet loneliness is more than a lack of in-person interaction with others.
Whether remote, hybrid, or at the office, loneliness is a yearning for a deeper connection with others. Just because people are working doesn’t mean they stop being human—they still want to be noticed, cared about, and included. One question I like to ask in interviews is, “Who has your back here? Who would be there for you if you needed help?” If they don’t have a clear and confident answer, there is a good chance the person is lonely.
The Brink:
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Bad Chrome Extensions: What You Can Do About Them
What’s Happening? Google RespondsAfter reports have demonstrated that millions of Chrome users are browsing the web with malicious extensions that can steal login details and other valuable information, Google has decided to conduct a purge. In one instance, a browser extension called “Webpage Screenshot” had code that would get data from all of the user’s traffic on their PC.
Although Google is actively working to ensure that Chrome users have a malware-free browsing experience, it cannot do all of the legwork. You will have to also fight the battle!
Here’s What You Can DoIn addition to this, you may want to install ExtShield (now called Shield for Chrome), which notifies you of any extensions that may be guilty of wrongdoing, then prompts you to uninstall them.
ConclusionAs consumers of web content and browsers, we must do our part to ensure that we don’t get caught in a web of malware! Similarly, we must also do this for others. Spread the word about bad extensions and their solution by sharing this!
Miguel Leiva-Gomez
Miguel has been a business growth and technology expert for more than a decade and has written software for even longer. From his little castle in Romania, he presents cold and analytical perspectives to things that affect the tech world.
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Zoom Fatigue Is Real. Here’s What To Do About It.
Andrew Hines is an assistant professor at University College Dublin. Pheobe Sun is a PhD candidate in computer science at the University College Dublin. This story originally featured on The Conversation.
Many new phrases have entered our vocabulary as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. “Zoom fatigue” refers to the mental exhaustion associated with online video conferencing.
We can change how we interact on video calls with adapted social behaviors such as scheduling shorter meetings. But theories from audio and sound research tell us that a lot of what determines how fatigued you become is based on what you are listening to.
The voices transmitted through the internet in real time are unedited and therefore crude to our ears. That’s why we can wile away an hour listening to a podcast interview but feel drained after a video meeting—even if we didn’t have to contribute.
The good news is each one of us can play a role in reducing Zoom fatigue. You can change some simple things to improve everyone’s video meeting experience.
Don’t tapUnnatural, unexpected, and annoying sounds invoke a response in our brains and force us to concentrate on them. In a conference call or video meeting, your voice is transformed by the microphone. High pitch frequencies will be amplified, resulting in a “Mickey Mouse” effect.
Subtle sounds such as key tapping and swallowing sounds will be captured and amplified through the system. Squeaky chairs, eating crunchy snacks, and slurping coffee can sound as if you are chewing in listeners’ ears.
If you want to limit the negative effect your voice might be having on other callers, the problem is you don’t know what it actually sounds like on their devices. Face to face we can hear ourselves in the same environment as our audience hears us and we adjust accordingly, but that’s not possible online.
Shape your new social spaceWhile the content and topics of our video conversations may remain the same, we’re constrained by the technology. Listening to group chats can be exhausting because we’ve lost the ways we use “back-channel” sounds to give turn-taking feedback.
This nuanced “meta-communication” involves using verbal and non-verbal sounds, such as “yeah” or “uh-huh”, that show attention, understanding, or agreement distracts and interrupts the flow in a group conversation. Network delays can confuse things even more when the talker’s speech and the back-channel response arrives out of sync or with long delays and can completely stall the conversation flow.
Network problems can also impact speech clarity. Data loss in the audio feed can cause unnatural sounding voices and missing sounds. Our brain needs to do extra work to fill in the gaps. We use energy concentrating on unnatural voice changes that divert our concentration from understanding the message.
We must acknowledge the technical limits of video chats and adapt by cultivating new conversation etiquette. Mute your microphones after saying hello and using text chat to interject or raise questions in group conversations. Articulate your own speech clearly (don’t mumble) and turn on closed captions to aid your comprehension. And make sure someone else in the house is not consuming all the bandwidth for Netflix while you are having a video conference.
Arrange your spaceConversations in a household environment bring background noises as well as echoes and reverberation due to room acoustics. Typical background conversations in open-plan offices can easily be filtered out subconsciously by our brain due to its ability to separate sounds by their location or direction.
These spatial cues allow us to focus on a single speaker in a crowded room. This is one reason why side-conversations held in parallel to the main discussion don’t work on a video conference. Without the aid of directional information background noises and speech become a lot more intrusive. Rooms at home can produce reverberations that can reduce your ability to understand speech.
To make your home video environment more accommodating, close the door to at least keep pets out—even if it can’t stop kids interrupting. You may not want to convert your living room into a recording studio by putting egg cartons all over the wall, but you can make the acoustic environment more “voice friendly” by reducing reverberation and echoes with soft furnishings like blankets or pillows instead of plain walls. The bookcase in the background is not just a pretty prop but also a good acoustic baffle.
Just like social distancing, improving the quality of your video call experience relies on a community effort. As many of us won’t be going back into the office for a long time, we must all work to reduce Zoom fatigue and make calls less of a strain for everyone.
6 Ways Bing Is The Opposite Of Google And What To Do About It
Search has been synonymous with Google for over a decade and a half. Even as search marketers, we are guilty of focusing a disproportionate amount of our time and resources into optimizing our campaigns, websites, and social media to Google. Google dictates what is acceptable and shape content strategies, campaign messaging, even business models.
However, even if Google does dominate nearly three-quarters of all search traffic, we cannot afford to ignore the leftover 25%. In fact, as marketers who hunt down every single percentage point growth in traffic, conversion, and market share, it’s our job to ensure not a single user is left unnoticed and unattended.
This is where Google’s only real challenger enters the picture. Say hello to Bing.
In many ways, Bing was painted as everything Google was not. While it unfortunately did not live up to that promise completely, many strategies for Bing are different from conventionally accepted SEO wisdom – wisdom that is designed nearly entirely on Google’s search algorithms. So, let’s take a look at what sets these two behemoths apart and how to navigate those tricky situations as an SEO professional.
#1 – Reading Between the LinesBing is often accused of being too literal for words. The focus on anchor text, keywords, title tags, H1, H2, tags and the like makes Bing seem like Google was about five years ago. The result is user intent is often missed for the actual words being typed in.
Google, on the other hand, changed the way users search with its Hummingbird update in that introduced semantic search. Google identifies natural language patterns and returns results based on the context of the words being keyed into the search bar, and not just the words themselves. Google understands and picks up synonyms, as well as the relationships between keywords instead of focusing on individual keywords.
Balancing Bing and GoogleThe first step is to get your on-page SEO spot on. Basics like getting your keyword(s) in the page title and headers, ensuring your keywords are visible throughout your page, optimizing your meta descriptions, alt tags, and so on will help ranks in both Bing and Google.
Even if the largest chunk of your time is spent optimizing for Google, make it a point to carve out time for Bing by tracking keywords specific to Bing, tracking your ranking purely for Bing, and so on. Just make sure you don’t get carried away and overstuff your page with keywords – Bing may like keywords, but Google sure will punish you for trying spammy tactics.
#2 – The Backlinks StoryGoogle’s hallowed PageRank algorithm was based upon the number and quality of backlinks a site receives from other sites. Google counts each ‘clean’ backlink as an ‘upvote’ in the favor of the site. The higher the authority of the sites linking back to your site, the better your search rankings.
In contrast, Bing’s focus on backlinks is not as intense as Google. Yes, you do need backlinks from other sites to rank well, but the quality of sites that link to you trumps quantity with Bing. There are other factors related to the backlinks that count even more. The inbound anchor text needs to exactly or at least partially match your keywords for your backlinks to even count. This is not the case with Google. In fact, Google’s Penguin update was a direct attack on spammy backlinks and over-optimization of keywords and anchor text.
Balancing Bing and GoogleSo if the quantity of your backlinks matter to Google, give it to them. Work on getting as many valid and clean backlinks as possible. The authority of sites that link back to yours is equally important to both Bing and Google, so work on creating content that even high authority sites won’t mind linking back to. Lastly, since inbound anchor text in your backlinks is so important to Bing, try to get exact match anchor text from high authority sites. Balance these out with non-exact match backlinks from lower authority sites to keep a possible Penguin penalty at bay.
#3 – Crawl DepthA persistent issue with Bing is that its bots do not read through your entire page to find a relevant keyword. Apparently around 100 kb at the beginning of a web page is what they normally scour. This stands in contrast with Google bots that scan through all the contents of your page – the good, bad and ugly – before making a decision about your search ranking.
When you submit your website to a search engine for being indexed, you probably expect your entire sitemap to find a place in its directories. This does happen with Google, but in the case of Bing, chances are only your homepage will be indexed. The only way the rest of your pages stand a chance of being indexed is if they carry at least one backlink from a high authority site.
Balancing Bing and GoogleThis one’s pretty straightforward. To stay on the radars of both Google and Bing, make sure you introduce your money keywords near the beginning of your page. Important backlinks ought to find a place near the top of the page to ensure findability by Bing, too. When you start building out your backlink profile, don’t only focus on your homepage. Build high quality links from respected websites to inside pages too. This does not just ensure visibility to your internal pages, it also helps improve your domain authority with Bing.
#4 – Freshness Lowers AuthorityThis may seem counter-intuitive at first glance, but Bing is a firm believer in the adage Old is gold. Sites that sport popular content and that have been around for a while win in the ranking stakes on Bing. The logic here is to reward authoritative content so users get the most accurate answers to their search queries. Another reason for older content getting higher ranks is that Bing takes its time to refreshes site indices, with refreshes happening about once in three months. Once a site is established in Bing’s algorithms as a high authority site, it will be a while before a fresh crawl reveals newer or more authoritative content to take its place.
On the other hand, fresher is nearly always better with Google. Google’s algorithms are tuned to find and display the latest content, all other factors like content relevance, domain authority, link profile, etc. remaining the same.
Balancing Bing and GoogleIt’s clear that both Bing and Google rank high quality and authoritative content higher than spammy content. So it goes without saying that you need to continually create strong, relevant content that matches the basic ranking criteria for both sites. As long as you publish a steady stream of excellent content, you will rank well on Google. The very fact that your content is good and well-regarded by other sites (strong backlinks) will help you rank well on Bing. Easy peasy!
#5 – Multimedia Rules on BingOne of the first things that hits you on the Bing homepage is the invariably stunning image of the day that graces the page. Bing takes this same keen eye for aesthetics a little further and builds it into its search. Google is primarily a text driven search engine, which makes sense of images based on the Alt tags that are attached to the images while coding the page. Google bots can’t even see Flash or make any sense of it, which has led to the demise of this once popular website design element.
At the other end of the spectrum is multimedia savvy Bing, which has a much deeper understanding of images, Flash, videos, and their ilk. Bing’s algorithm relies on its ‘entity understanding’ capabilities to recognize what a particular image means or depicts in the overall context of the search query. This translates to more relevant image results on Bing with fewer duplicates or exact matches.
The autosuggest options on Bing’s image search are persistent (unlike Google) at the top of the page as you scroll below the fold.
Recognizing the image-centric nature of social media today, Bing leverages images from social media for a richer and more relevant set of image results.
Balancing Bing and GoogleEven though Bing is adept at recognizing and serving up Flash results, you’d do well to avoid Flash in general, considering Google’s absolute inability combined with its gigantic market share. However, Bing offers you a whole picture book of reasons to include crisp, striking, and relevant images across your site. Even if your text content doesn’t rank you very high, your images stand a much stronger chance. While you’re at it, make sure you include alt tags and meta descriptions on your images to keep poor Google happy too.
#6 – Social Signals are Definitely a Big DealGoogle has traditionally flip-flopped on the importance of social media to its SERP rankings. Matt Cutts went so far as to pretty much deny social media had any role to play at all in Google’s scheme of things. While this claim has been disproved to a large extent by empirical evidence, the official stance remains that social media is not a huge ranking factor for Google.
Bing differs distinctly from Google in this regard. It doesn’t just use social signals like shares, tweets and overall popularity as ranking factors, it even integrates results from social media into its search results. Research by Search Metrics corroborates this inference by placing social signals as one of the top five ranking factors for Bing.
Balancing Bing and GoogleSocial media is here to stay. Even if Bing gave no importance to social media signals, you’d still probably spend a large chunk of your time and efforts on your social media marketing. However, with Bing placing clear importance on social media and Google offering social media the respect it deserves via search rankings (if not in words!), you definitely need to work on making your social media contribute to your SEO.
Let’s say you created an online survey on social media asking users to pitch in with their favorites from your product line. Now, user surveys are a great way of gathering firsthand information that can be applied to improve your site offerings. So why limit the responses to just your fans on social media? You would want this content to surface on relevant web searches, right?
Include URLs to your content in your social media posts, promote your content marketing on social media via both paid and organic posts and work on building a strong social footprint for that authority to rub off on your search rankings.
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Ozempic Shortage: What People With Diabetes Need To Know
Ozempic is a prescription injection that was originally used to treat type 2 diabetes, but nowadays, it is more popular for decreasing weight. The injection is infused into the body through your upper arm, abdomen, or thigh. Assess Ozempic from outside before use. It ought to show up a clear formulation. Try not to utilize it if there is a chance that particulate matter and coloration is observed.
While using Ozempic with insulin, one must try to use new discrete infusions and to never blend the formulations. The generic name of Ozempic is Semaglutide.
Ozempic ApplicationOzempic imitates the activity of the human incretin glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists group and increases insulin and blood sugar levels. It also helps in improving glycaemic control. Furthermore, it is one of a group of medications that also includes liraglutide (Victoza), dulaglutide (Trulicity), and exenatide (Bydureon). The aftereffects of Ozempic application can include pain in the abdomen, headache, vomiting, nausea, allergic reactions, passing gas loose bowels, and even diarrhoea.
Semaglutide which is sold under the brand names Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsus, is an antidiabetic medicine utilized for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and reducing weight, created by Novo Nordisk.
The word has spread and circulated around the web on social media for one of its aftereffects which is loss of weight and become harder and unavailable to access among individuals who actually want to utilize the medication to maintain their blood sugar or glucose level and insulin.
There is now a shortage of both Wegovy, a drug used to treat obesity, and Ozempic. In addition, it helps in weight reduction and is sold as Wegovy to treat obesity in people. We have also found that Wegovy is sold at higher numbers than Ozempic. A point to note is that it’s not a weight-reducing drug. However, some people noticed a decrease in their A1C levels which is the measure of your average blood sugar. But, for individuals who take them to maintain diabetes as well as the people who consume it to reduce weight, going off the medications unexpectedly can cause significant damage.
Ozempic works with your body’s own capacity to bring down the levels of glucose whenever it finds that it’s higher than normal. It is intended to respond when your glucose level rises in your body by making your pancreas release insulin. It keeps your liver from producing and releasing an excess of sugar. Likewise, it also slows down the process of food leaving your stomach.
Uses of OzempicAlong with the diet and exercises, Ozempic can be consumed to maintain blood glucose levels in grown-ups with type 2 diabetes.
The injection can be used to lower the chances of major cardiovascular health diseases, for example, heart failure, stroke, or even death in grown-ups.
It is not known yet whether Ozempic can be utilized in individuals who have had pancreatitis. Ozempic isn’t really for use in individuals with type 1 diabetes. It is yet to be evident whether Ozempic is safe to use in kids under 18 years old.
Side Effects of OzempicAs with most medications, certain individuals can have a hypersensitive response after taking Ozempic. Some side effects can include skin rash, irritation, and flushing. But in some cases, a more extreme hypersensitive response can be found.
Side effects of a serious hypersensitive response can include swelling that can normally occur in your eyelids, lips, hands, or feet. It can also be found on your tongue, mouth, or throat which can lead to inconvenience in breathing patterns.
Ozempic consumption only for weight loss can expose the person who is taking the meds, to certain risks such as facial aging, thyroid cancer, and even kidney failure. Hence, at the point when individuals stop their Semaglutide dose, the patient’s blood glucose levels can elevate. Moreover, patients with diabetes might be experiencing a hazy vision, weakness, and more frequent thirst and peeing encounters.
Diabetic retinopathy which is a diabetes-related eye problem, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, kidney problems, gallstones, and even pancreatitis are serious problems that can occur after consumption of Ozempic. Some might even have to consult a doctor or head to the trauma center as a result of depletion. They may experiment with increasing spikes in glucose.
Alternatives of OzempicDifferent medications are accessible that can assist with treating type 2 diabetes or lower the risk of serious cardiovascular issues. Some might even have a better effect on you than others. If you’re tracking down an alternative to Ozempic, consult your personal health practitioner to study different prescriptions that can work for you.
So, individuals with diabetes and obesity previously taking these medications but no longer have access to it, need to be aware and find alternatives like Bydureon (exenatide), Victoza (liraglutide), Mounjaro (Tirzepatide), Tanzeum (Albiglutide), and Trulicity (dulaglutide) that can suit their body in a long run.
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