Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to his social media platform X to unveil his most recent weight loss while using a blood sugar medication.
Musk has increasingly entered the public eye since endorsing President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the Nov. 5 election. After Trump’s victory, he chose Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to run the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency.
On Christmas Day, he shared a photo of himself wearing a Santa Claus suit in a joke about the overweight character. The post received over 320,000 likes.
“Ozempic Santa,” Musk captioned the photo. “Technically, Mounjaro, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it.”
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Mounjaro is a tirzepatide injectable medication meant to help lower blood sugar. However, it, along with its semaglutide companion Ozempic, has also resulted in weight loss for its users. The Food and Drug Administration has only approved both drugs for treating diabetes.
Trump’s pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has criticized these GLP-1 drugs for not resolving the root of the obesity problem. However, since the election, Kennedy has toned down his comments on the matter.
