You Must Know THIS Before Taking WEIGHT LOSS Meds like OZEMPIC

Hello Health Champions today I want to talk about  what you need to know before you start a weight  

loss medication like ozempic and I've gotten  tons and tons of questions hundreds literally  

where people are wondering about these weight  loss drugs because they seem to work so people  

say things like I'm interested in knowing how  this will affect my body I'm a type 2 diabetic  

but I had a GI reaction someone says my doctor  is pushing me to go on ozempic I'm refusing too  

many serious side effects and the weight comes  right back when this continued I don't want to  

be a guinea pig and then Beavis and Butthead  says there are two ways to lose weight one's  

called wegovy and the other is called ozempic so  these contain the active ingredient we're going  

to talk about today nothing else works and we are  all living proof thank God modern medicine finally  

got something right so did Beavis and Butthead get  this right we're going to talk talk about weight  

loss medications that contain something called  semaglutide and we're going to talk about the  

results people are getting about the mechanism  because that's critical to understand what it  

does and what else it does and because when we  understand the mechanism we can figure out if it's  

a good idea typical results based on data they've  gathered are that after one year 63 percent of  

people have lost at least five percent of their  body weight which means if you weighed 200 pounds  

or 200 kilos whichever unit you can do the math  you're down to 190 and 27 percent lost at least  

10 percent meaning you gone from 200 to 180. so  we would probably have to say that yes this works  

there are some benefits in terms of weight loss  and like we will talk about also diabetes and in  

insulin resistance but does it work better than  blank that's the question I think there are some  

people who can be helped by this who have really  stubborn weight where nothing else have worked but  

does it work better than other things that we  could do such as fasting and low carb because  

it's very clear that a lot of people using this  have never really seriously tried fasting or low  

carb but then the question is can you do this  for a while and then get off is this something  

you do for three months or six months or a year  and then you're done and your body has restored  

its balance and you can just go on with life also  does it keep working if you do take it long term  

do the effects stay the same or does it kind of  taper off but most importantly even if it works  

are there some consequences the active component  is called semaglutide and that's what we call a  

glp-1 Agonist an Agonist works the same as an  antagonist works the opposite and glp1 stands  

for glucagon like peptide one that's a hormone  that the body makes itself so this semaglutide  

works the same it has the same effect as this  glp1 Agonist and this is a hormone that the body  

releases at the end of a meal so when we have  eaten we've given the body some resources this  

is one way that the body recognizes hey we are  full we're satisfied so it signals that to the  

body it signals fullness but it also signals that  hey we got got a bunch of food let's release some  

insulin so we can take care of this food so we can  bring the blood sugar down and process it get it  

into the cell and start some metabolic processes  so both of these are excellent for controlling  

type 2 diabetes because the insulin will bring  down blood glucose but when we signal fullness  

we end up eating less so even though it raises  insulin it actually works for weight loss and  

diabetes control but we really have to understand  a few more things that it does it reduces the rate  

and amount of gastric emptying so the food sits in  the stomach for a long long time and this is part  

of why we don't just get the signal of fullness  but we feel full for a good bit longer and this  

also has a lot to do with the side effects which  we'll come back to it decreases gastric motility  

so the stomach normally churns and mixes  pretty much on going to mix the food with  

the digestive juices and that's part of digestion  of breaking down the food and extracting nutrients  

and furthermore this glp-1 reduces the acid  secretion so we're going to have less stomach  

acid and we need to understand all these and we'll  go through these in detail now these drugs have  

been called blockbuster drugs because they're some  of the most popular drugs around there's 60 000  

prescriptions written every week for these even  though they're very very expensive and the reason  

is of course it works and it increases insulin it  decreases blood glucose and it decreases appetite  

so this means that you can lose weight with no  responsibility or with much less responsibility  

than you might otherwise have to and for a lot of  people they continue to eat the standard American  

diet lots of sugar lots of processed food and  grain and tons of carbs and they still get results  

so in other words you can have your cake and eat  it too and what could be better than that so of  

course it's very popular and I found a story some  people had shared their experience and we're going  

to call them the Smiths even though they were  actually called something else in the article  

they were very affluent they were successful but  they rather pay attention to their careers than  

their health they were in their 50s they had  type 2 diabetes they were both overweight and  

they said that because of ozempic they had changed  their relationship to food they had lost 15 pounds  

in several months time and the A1C had gotten very  much under control from a pre-diabetic or diabetic  

range to a normal range and the article quoted  them saying things like I can eat half a sandwich  

and be so full I need to stop I'll put the other  half away for later they would say hey what's for  

dinner and the answer would be I don't care let's  just have a few bites of cereal and the husband  

would say things like well I won't follow a diet  I won't count carbs or watch the amount of sugar  

I eat I just won't do those things so here's the  thing I want to point out that they said they had  

changed their relationship to food but in my mind  they hadn't changed anything they it has taken a  

chemical they had taken a medication that went in  and interfered and simply blunted their response  

to food they they flattened their desire but  they hadn't learned anything they hadn't really  

changed anything they still ate the same stuff  now for some people they still have success doing  

that for other people they have to take some other  measures such as exercise and some dietary changes  

on top of the medication so here's a key point  this medication actually appears to help people  

with weight and diabetic markers such as blood  sugar and A1C and that's a great thing but blood  

sugar and insulin resistance is not everything  there is about health it's the majority of people  

have that problem but because you reverse it  doesn't mean you cover 100 of your health issues  

we are a nation a planet at this point who  is overfed and undernourished and if you  

are nutrient deficient and you're eating 3 500  calories of depleted food of nutrient deficient  

processed foods which we do in the U.S on average  it's like 3 700 or something and then you take  

a medication that suppresses your appetite and  now you eat 2 000 calories of nutrient deficient  

depleted food how is that going to make you  healthier yes you're going to fix what your  

insulin resistance gets a little better but are  you getting healthier just because you wake fix  

one problem doesn't mean it's all gone you solve  one thing and you create several new ones and  

if you fix the insulin resistance that might take  care of you it might look much better in the next  

several months to a few years but what happens  after that what happens over a few decades so  

let's look a little bit further on if this is a  good idea and let's look at how normal physiology  

operates so in your body you have something  called the autonomic nervous system that's the  

part of your brain and nervous system that handles  everything behind the scenes for you it processes  

billions of bits of information every second which  is a million times more than your conscious mind  

processes so there's a tons of information that is  processed on your behalf everything is fine-tuned  

and regulated and the autonomic nervous system  supervises your endocrine system your hormones and  

your hormones are part they they handle behavior  and mood and so forth but also there are hormones  

that affect your digestive system like glp1  that we're talking about and humans just like  

every other animal on the planet have certain  needs we need certain resources and therefore  

because of the need our autonomic nervous  system our hormones create a desire called  

appetite and every animal on the planet go out to  eat every day they try to find something it's not  

because they don't have anything better to do it's  because they need some resources and then once we  

find something now we start eating and there's a  whole slew of steps involved to get this process  

completed we start chewing it to breaking it down  into smaller pieces we release some saliva with  

enzymes to start breaking it down then we have  gastric juices like acid hydrochloric acid that  

activate peptides that are enzymes that break  down protein then like we said we have motility  

first the stomach starts churning and mixing and  then it starts moving through the digestive tract  

and it completes the digestive process and the  stomach will empty it will move things through  

at a certain rate so it needs to be in the stomach  for a certain amount of time and when the body is  

done with that with the churning and the digestive  juices then it moves it on out and now the rest  

of the digestive system the small intestine the  large intestine can finish the absorption of the  

nutrients and we can turn all these resources  into energy and tissue into new body parts and  

I just want to emphasize that all of these steps  have been in place in every mammal on the planet  

for eons and there's nothing random about it every  step has its purpose and it's there to complete  

the process of getting resources into the body and  assimilating them appropriately and now we go add  

semaglutide which will decrease the response of  the autonomic nervous system so the body still  

needs the same amount of resource sources but we  have no desire to go and acquire them we don't  

care whether we get the resources or not we're  just not going to get hungry then this medication  

also reduces the gastric juices which means that  now we have less acid and that acid acts as an  

immune barrier if you ingest some bacteria they're  basically supposed to die in that acid vat but if  

we don't make the juices now we've lost at least  part of that immune barrier we also cannot digest  

proteins very well the proteins that are supposed  to become the building blocks the tissues of the  

body without the acid we're not activating the  pepsin which starts breaking down protein we  

reduce the motility the stomach doesn't move and  churn it doesn't mix it just sits there so now  

without that churning and mixing we are losing  an important aspect of digestion and breaking  

down that food and the semaglutide also reduces  the stomach emptying so the food basically just  

sits there for a long long time and this has a lot  to do with the side effects that they're observing  

and these are pretty substantial so it's not like  one or two percent here and there that experience  

these side effects about 20 percent of people will  have nausea and depending on the dose if it's a  

higher dose as much as 40 percent of people will  get nauseous we also have vomiting nine percent  

of people would vomit and we have diarrhea in  eight percent of people so these numbers are are  

pretty substantial but if you watch the headline  lately there's been some much much more serious  

side effects and that is called gastroparesis and  there are lots of people who report gastroparesis  

which is basically a paralysis of the stomach not  only does it move slowly or move a little bit it  

stops all together they put food in there and it  just sits there and one lady reported that she  

went to a restaurant she had one bite and started  throwing up and they took her to the emergency  

room and they checked out her stomach and the food  from the previous day was still in the stomach  

that can't be good and in other people they find  that even years later after they have discontinued  

these drugs some of these side effects still  remain that they still have gastroparesis they  

still have vomiting years and years later now no  one really knows why some of these effects go on  

for a long long time and why they might become  even permanent but I want to share something  

with you some a way that we want to think about  these things and when want to question the things  

that we're doing and it has to do with half-life  so every hormone the body makes has a half-life  

the body has a plan for this hormone it's only  supposed to last so long and when we compare  

the body's own the glp-1 to the man-made version  of the glp-1 they're dramatically different the  

bodies version has a half-life of two minutes that  means after two minutes only half of the initial  

release is there after four minutes 25 is left and  so forth so after 10 minutes the effect is mostly  

gone so the body is planning for this to only  work a very very short time in terms of slowing  

down the secretion of stomach acid and gastric  emptying and appetite suppression and so forth  

but when we compare that to the man-made  version how many minutes would you think  

that the half-life is of that well how about one  week that's a lot of minutes so we have something  

where the body intended it to last a very short  time to basically gone in 10 minutes and now we  

put something in that has a virtually permanent  effect so the appetite suppression and the gastric  

acid suppression and the slowing of the stomach  now we have something that is always there and if  

we have something that suppresses function ongoing  that's obviously very very different than the plan  

the body had in mind and then they're giving you  some helpful hints for managing these side effects  

of course so they say eat bland food eat low-fat  foods that are low in fiber things like crackers  

toast and white rice yeah that'll really solve  the problem so eating things that have even less  

nutrient even less resources how's that going to  get you healthy so this medication comes with a  

lot of side effects but here's what we also need  to understand about side effects that when we use  

that word in our standard language then it means  an undesired effect that has resulted in a symptom  

something that we notice something manifest but I  want to try to give you another understanding of  

side effect the way I look at it so my definition  is that a side effect is any disruption of normal  

physiology that if the body normally has its way  of doing things we give it resources it uses those  

resources it has a plan there's a mechanism for  everything now anything foreign any medication any  

chemical that we take that changes that balance  is going to have a consequence or a side effect  

fact whether we notice it or not now a lot of  people probably think that I am an anti-medication  

which I'm not I'm only against most of it  or rather the way most of it is being used  

so I'm all for using medication for emergencies  where they can save life where there is a crisis  

where something has gone out of control they  can save lives but we have to understand that  

most health problems are lifestyle problems it's  things that we have created ourselves knowingly  

or unknowingly and the only way to deal with a  lifestyle problem is to make a lifestyle change  

so a few more things about this semaglutide  that they say that rebound is common or even  

expected so basically what that means is that  over time there is a lessening effect the body  

tries to defend itself against this chemical  so the appetite suppression might not be the  

same all the time and also more importantly if  you stop this medication then you will start  

gaining weight again it will the body will bounce  right back unless you have made such powerful  

changes in your lifestyle that you control it  with food and exercise and you eat real food  

so basically this is a lifetime medication once  you get on it expect it to go on forever pretty  

much also a lot of people will still need to make  Lifestyle Changes like we talked about before some  

people can be lazy and keep eating garbage and get  some results but for a lot of people with stubborn  

weight then they will still need to make lifestyle  changes some other issues that they mention is  

that a lot of times this is covered by insurance  and it's very expensive so Insurance may not be  

interested in covering this year after year after  year especially not without raising premiums and  

if you pay this out of pocket some of the numbers  that I saw was like a thousand dollars a month and  

it sometimes baffles me how incredibly intelligent  the human species is and yet we are clever enough  

to be really really stupid that that we have  completely parted ways with nature we're the only  

species who have separated ourselves completely  from nature to create artificial environments  

and artificial foods and in doing that we are  basically creating all disease the vast majority  

of the disease that we're suffering from today  we have created and then we develop so-called  

Health Care Systems which are really sick care  and symptom treatment systems and we spend not a  

little bit of money but virtually all the money we  have left trillions and trillions of dollars and  

what are we doing we're covering up and treating  symptoms we're not addressing root causes we  

create disease and then we spend trillions in just  treating the effects of that and when we treat  

symptoms instead of root causes of addressing  root causes we're allowing the problem to continue  

and we actually make it worse but we all have  different perspectives and what I'm sharing here  

is just my perspective I'm not pointing fingers  or saying that anyone's doing anything wrong you  

always have your choice and you can either eat  crap and take medications and then from age 40  

or 50 or so then like a lot of people you might  develop fatigue and brain fog you might get some  

chronic pain maybe start developing poor sleep  you might have some reduced mobility and like a  

lot of people you start developing type 2 diabetes  cardiovascular disease and no neuropathy so the  

majority of population will experience a reduced  quality of life and be on multiple medications  

from age 40 or 50. this is your choice there's  nothing wrong with that if that model works for  

use that's all the best that you want then go  for it but you do have another choice and that  

is to be a health Champion that's what I'm always  talking about on this channel and that means that  

you address the root cause you understand that  this body is only adapting to insult that we're  

doing things through our lifestyle that the world  has changed more in 50 years than the previous 50  

000 and if we understand what that impact is  on the body now we can start addressing root  

causes we can start honoring and supporting our  bodies and our physiology and start eating real  

food which in my opinion my experience is low carb  high fat and it doesn't mean everyone needs to be  

keto it doesn't mean everyone needs to be extreme  low carb but it means fat is really healthy if we  

eat good fat and most people are eating way way  way too much carbohydrate and nobody should have  

their diet based on carbohydrates and grains  and we have to eat food that has nutrients that  

provide the resources and in doing that we're  going to create a balance and Natural Balance  

between hunger and satiety we have this delicate  infinite intelligence that can regulate these  

things if we give the body the right resources and  the next most important thing is to move the body  

on a regular basis your body is made for movement  it's what drives every physiological process it  

drives the nervous system you cannot have optimal  health without regular movement and by doing all  

of this for a period of time at the same time  now you can start living to your potential which  

is going to be different for different people  we have been blessed to different degrees with  

genetic blueprint but you do this first and then  you start looking elsewhere if you still need help  

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