The buzz around the ‘oatzempic’ trend. Can it help you lose weight?

'Oatzempic,' a new social media craze, is making the rounds, with the emergence of the drink trend promising remarkable weight loss outcomes.

A new social media craze is making the rounds with the emergence of a drink trend dubbed “oatzempic” promising remarkable weight loss outcomes. Yet, as excitement mounts, one nutrition expert cautions about the potential risks associated with this trend.

The name ‘oatzempic’ blends a reference to oats (the main ingredient in the drink) with a play on Ozempic, the popular weight loss drug made by Novo Nordisk. However, there isn’t a medical ingredient in the concoction, which consists of a half cup of rolled oats, one cup of water, juice from half of a lime and a dash of cinnamon.

Certain TikTok users claim they’ve shed 40 pounds within two months thanks to the drink. Another user said she lost seven pounds in 10 days with oatzempic.

One TikTok user said drinking the oatzempic drink twice daily has helped her lose weight. She added that historically, she has struggled with weight loss due to her polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) diagnosis — but drinking the oat-based concoction twice a day has made a difference.

“I have never gotten results like I’m getting currently, with the help of this drink,” she claims in the video.

Natalie Riediger, an associate professor in the Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences at the University of Manitoba, said the oatzempic trend is a recent food fad she saw pop up, and believes these types of trends tend to “come and go.”

“For the last, I don’t know how many decades, we have had a preoccupation with weight loss. So this isn’t surprising,” she told Global News. “And of course, Ozempic has really penetrated the public consciousness.”

While acknowledging the nutritional benefits of consuming oats, she emphasized the importance of not solely relying on dietary trends for achieving sustainable weight loss.