Dr. Terry Dubrow criticizing Jillian Michaels and her anti-Ozempic stance

Dr. Terry Dubrow is criticizing Jillian Michaels for her anti-Ozempic stance, the “miracle weight loss drug.”

“As a board-certified physician and a certified expert for the California medical board, I’m not here to debate scientific and medical issues with a personal trainer,” he told TMZ Tuesday.

Dubrow, 65, said that “great influence” like Michaels’ disapproval of the medicine might “limit people’s interest in treating the ‘disease’ of obesity” with weight-loss treatments like Ozempic.

“What Jillian has said is that there is going to be A: a massive fallout with long-term Ozempic use, people will get used to it like coffee, and [B:] the side-effects are so bad you shouldn’t even try it,” he added.

Michaels told People that she stopped numerous friends and family members from using the “dangerous” weight reduction medicine owing to its terrible adverse effects, which left them feeling “like s—t.”

“Once they get off the drug, it does the rebound effect,” she said. “So you gain nothing. You quit the medication in a year and return. You learnt nothing. You lack physical strength and endurance. You haven’t learnt good eating.”

Dubrow said Jillian is “absolutely right” that appropriate “diet and exercise” is “critical” to health, but she can’t dispute the drug’s benefits.

“To ignore or belittle these incredible, miracle weight loss drugs is sending the wrong message,” he added. “Do not listen to her, ladies and gentlemen!”

“Obesity increases mortality risk from major causes. Diet, exercise, and these medicines, which have been available for a decade, are safe ways to lose weight.

Just hours after his interview with the magazine was released, Michaels, 49, responded on her Instagram Stories.

The personal trainer republished a July 2023 interview in which Dubrow said Ozempic might “slow down your intestines and predispose you to intestinal obstruction.”

“@DrDubrow a year ago you were cited in @nypost article on Ozempic possibly COSTING YOU YOUR LIFE,” she commented over a screenshot. Why the sudden focus on face as an Ozempic poster child? ????.”

She then provided screenshots of Ozempic’s website listings for adverse effects and various articles on the drug’s hazards.

“I don’t deal in opinions,” she wrote. “Unfortunately, trainers can read the side effects, studies, and articles AND THEN ask all the doctors on my podcast for advice.”

She also noted that Dubrow took the medicine but stopped owing to negative effects.

The plastic surgeon told Page Six last week that he tried Ozempic and “thought it was amazing” despite not having “much weight to lose.”