NEW DELHI — When the weight loss drug Mounjaro came on the market in India earlier this year, Shyamanthak Kiran was one of the first patients to try it.

Kiran, a 27-year-old financial trader who has struggled with hypothyroidism, said he “did not have a lot of expectations” when it came to losing weight. But “luck turned out in my favor,” he said, and in six months he lost all of the 60-plus pounds he had gained a few years earlier.

“It was a two-year struggle that came to an end, and I couldn’t be happier,” he told NBC News.

Indians trying to lose weight are embracing drugs such as Mounjaro , which is also used to treat diabetes in a country that has been called the world’s diabetes capital.

The injectable medication from American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has become India’

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