New Delhi, June 12 -- For years, Shaquille O'Neal thought the exhaustion was just the cost of being the size of a doorway. He snored loudly enough that friends filmed it. He was tired all day. He could not focus. He filed all of it, he says now, under the heading of being a 7-foot-1 former athlete who had always treated his own body as indestructible.

Zepbound, the Eli Lilly drug better known as a blockbuster weight-loss injection. "When my doctor told me I had moderate obstructive sleep apnea, it clicked," O'Neal said. "This wasn't just about snoring, it was a real health condition."

The candor is real, and it is also a commercial. O'Neal's disclosure did not arrive in a vacuum or an unguarded interview. It is the centerpiece of a nati...