Does Everyone Need Ozempic? 

They're pushing meds ,instead of getting to the real problem

Only for the big pharma .... They do not make money off the healthy. Doctors accepting this garbage are the problem. Any doctor that sided with the Covid jab should be eliminated from your list of good doctors. How are you to accept a drug without even knowing the ingredients much less the affects? Yeah.. Dr. Mike you are guilty.

A lot would be solved if it were prevented. And in this case obesity is easily preventable.

​@@stephenvierling2287not necessarily different people have different needs

People will always pay to continue doing what they want instead of changing

Yikes. No wonder.

It's worth mentioning America has a severe issue, the rest of the world can see that

I mean she didn't really say anything flat out wrong.

Yea...she seemed so full of it

The drug she is talking about is legit as hell though

We absolutely need better walking/biking trails, improved public transport, community gardens, and better health education.

This!

As someone who is disabled and lives near cities trying to get rid of cars, we need to make sure that those with mobility/nervous/sensory/pain disabilities don't get left behind. If we can't drive and park ourselves close to where we need to go, then we need to make sure that there are public services (busses, easily accessible rideshares, wheelchair-friendly roads/sidewalks, etc) that are convenient and available at all times. 😊

​@SlavaZone My city has an extensive Dial A Ride system that assists mobility impaired, elderly and people with other challenges to move about town. Users are transported door to door at a reasonable cost. Our fixed route busses are wheelchair accessible and have assisted entrances/exits. People can bring service animals onto the bus. I wish there were better accommodations for hearing impaired/deaf.

We also need to hold food addicts accountable and not enable their addiction. That's something you can personally do, saying "people are fat because bad cities" doesn't help anything unless you're showing up to city and zoning board meetings

They would have to be extremely disastrous than what mass obesity does to the world. But yeah i do still agree, more studies are needed.

But if you’re taking it, you’re likely fighting for your life anyway. I think that’s where it is perceived as acceptable regardless of the side effects

@@melanp4698Mass obesity isnt really a crisis like that though. Doesnt do much to the world. Some people die earlier

@@eeeertoo2597 The healthcare related costs of 100% only Obesity related ilnesses in 2021 was $312 billion in the US alone. You dont think those money could be spent better elsewhere? You dont think it destroyed some families economy? You dont think it created long waiting lists for healthcare for other people? You sound absolutely clueless.

@@melanp4698 I didnt say it wasnt bad, but you’re painting it in a much worse image, ultimately the problem is in the american system

Agree. But in conjunction with that, the medication would still benefit many. Yknow its difficult to reverse obesity even if your circumstances change and you are able to afford healthier food and a gym (afford in monetary and time terms).

Poverty causing obesity is stupid, poverty causes starvation, definitely not obesity. It costs a lot of money to maintain a diet with enough calories to make you obese or maybe you stay obese.

​@@kilian8250not when the cheapest food option you have is McDonald's.

@@jerotoro2021 I don’t believe that a burger from mcdonalds is cheaper by calorie than a sack of rice for instance.

@@kilian8250 it's not. But you'll die if you eat nothing but rice, it's not nutritionally complete. A McDonald's meal has nearly all micronutrients represented, without need for cooking, storing food, cleaning utensils, and all the time electricity water expense that goes with cooking at home. Fast food is the cheapest food option in the US.

How is he doing now?

I want to hear updates too, OP! 😊

How is your dad doing now?

@@janecarlin5910 he is still diabetic but his A1c is much lower and he was able to get off of meds and back to diet.

Except this specific medication should not be used for weightloss. It doesnt help much in many people, and diabetics NEED it to survive and its in short supply

@@MyLittleGreenHairdedMermaidit actually helps most people greatly! I dunno what you’re talking about with the “it doesn’t help much in many people.”

@@MyLittleGreenHairdedMermaidand a lot of people- myself for instance- are only on this medication because we are pre diabetic.

@MigattenoBlakae it helps while taking it but once you go off, it all comes back. Its because it slows digestion but slowing down your stomachs ability to digest.... which is why you can develop gastroparasis

Well I guess I'm less educated on the drug than I thought.. nonetheless I guess I can't really form a full opinion on it because I don't know now. But regardless, if your doctor approves it and you're VERY well informed of any possible risks then that's your decision to make

You think that the government should be able to tell a certain group of the population... the poorest, what they are and are not allowed to eat?

@@Kelly-nt2rqnot what the person was saying

@@TOH_Fan yes it is..... Public subsidies... Aka welfare. They want the welfare money to only go to healthy food. That's the government telling poor people what they can and can not eat.

@@Kelly-nt2rqYou lack reading comprehension. Who said that the government should tell people what they are allowed to eat? 😂😂 😂

I'm forced to assume y'all are stupid. It could not be clearer what the not silent op said.

So how come you are obese? And why did obesity increase by like 70% since the 1960s?

It's a tool just like metformin or insulin is for diabetic people.

That’s amazing congratulations!!!

​@@louisadway1856insulin is great for diabetics but we should also focus on the root cause. We can't just let everyone become obese and diabetic and give them insulin and ozempic cuz "it works". Imagine every human on the planet living on insulin because their pancreas don't work. It may "physically" work but I don't think that's healthy.

@@louisadway1856it’s not just a “Tool” for diabetics, it is LIFE SAVING. It is a “Tool” for people who use it for “Off-Label” reasons.

The problem is doctors are arrogant AF cUse of how they are seen in society. As a former obese person, many GPs think they know everything and make fun of nutritionists

100%. Where I'm from dietitians are very affordable /free (paid by insurance), lots of gyms, psychologists and physio is also covered for everyone. So making the resources more accessible is hugely important in changing the outcomes!

There aren't enough physical therapists for that many obese people.

@@plat2716 There are enough neurosurgeons to fix brains like yours

Most obese people have tried to lose weight many times. They KNOW how to, they just can’t. Food addiction is a real thing. Dietitians, physical therapist, personal trainers, psychologist, are not a feasible option when 60% of your population is obese or overweight.

here, you deserve this - 📣 Make sure they can hear you in the back row.

This 👏🏻

Then don't take high blood pressure or high cholesterol medication either.

@@melaniee373that is completely different one is life saving because any of those problems will result in cardiac death over time untreated and even on medications patients do need to fix their diets to maintain proper levels or risk dying of a cardiac death prematurely..

So many drugs do that though there’s a million things that are bad for you and a thousand of drugs to treat those things. Think about other addictive things and the drugs used to treat negative health outcomes from Tobacco, alcohol, even caffeine. With caffeine people are damaging there hearts making heart health worse leading to needing to treat heart conditions more.

You don’t need gym memberships to start being healthy. But for the cost of one or two mcdonalds meals you can get a full months worth of 24h access to a gym in most cities. Eat less and count calories, work out more if that’s possible, and if you’re in an area where fresh produce is hard to get buy canned goods and such.

@@vinny184agreed. Everyone has access to the internet on their phone these days so there is no longer any excuse like “maybe they just don’t know better”. If you can’t take 15 minutes to look up some healthy recipes or proper weightlifting techniques or what type of cardio you should be doing: you are just lazy. You don’t care about getting healthy or making positive lifestyle changes, at this point you just care about making excuses. This applies to almost everything from learning to play the guitar to learning how to cross stitch or jumpstart a car. There is a giant wealth of knowledge that is accessible through a device in your pocket and you’re just choosing not to do anything.

Why do that when our politicians can can just launder money from big pharma instead

Why not both?

this

​@@mdbr-xe5ibbecause ozempic is already in low supply and diabetics need it to survive

I approve. Ultra processed foods are evil to sell and they’re almost all of the food on our shelves nowadays. It’s tailor made to addict us, and fatten us up, all to make these greedy bastards and their shareholders a few extra pennies on the dollar.

If a medication has more than one use, all of those uses are what it is for. Being obese is deadly. People with diabetes can't gatekeep an entire class of medication.

my mom also uses it for diabetes (has been on it for years) and yeah it’s crazy and pretty sad too. The side effects are no joke either, she throws up every morning and doesn’t have an appetite. She literally needs it to survive so idk how i feel about this being “popular” now

That’s my stand on this, What about the people who need to be on this this medication for their chronic illness, i only of diabetes that uses ozempic

@@crypticshadowsdude she is taking way too much if she’s throwing up

I think manufacturers and disgributors should take the brunt of the blame for that; not the general population imho

you need to change the whole food culture. the standard diet is fundamentally bad

Even if we teach them while they are young, we still have an upward, challenging battle with the preferred diet with how they are farmed and manufactured… laden with chemicals , GMOS and pestcides…Its nothing like 50 years ago. …so so sad. An organic orange has less nutrients than an average grown orange of 20 years ago. We keep contaminating our soul and oceans!!!

@@lademore GMOS are not bad.

@@jimj2683 well when i see a watermelon with No SEEDS , thats worrisome. I think fruits and vegetbles shouod not be MODIFIED AT ALL. The nutrition of one regular orange 30 years ago equals the nutrition of 21 organic oranges today.

Nobody here is getting the point. We already teach kids about drugs, about smoking, about drinking, about smoking weed. And yet so many teens and young adults struggle with those addictions. There's no rationality in an addiction. It's a purely emotional response to an outside or internal stressor. Maybe even one caused by the addiction itself, i.e withdrawal. No amount of education is going to get people to take better care of themselves. We need better mental health support services, a better system to help those who are struggling and find out what it is they're trying to escape from. Once we find out what those stressors are, we should work on trying to eliminate those on a societal level as best as we can (poverty, bullying, undiagnosed mental disorders, stigma, social issues such as racism and homophobia, etc.)

This is exactly why it is dangerous to do this to a large population

Is she skinnier at least?

​@@ichigo96goshe is also at high risk for malnutrition & dehydration with this level of gastroparesis

​@@ichigo96go Are you joking? Wtf

Likely didn’t know. Rather new drug and all, so I’ll happily let others be the lab rats. I’ll stick with diet and keeping the lard off. Given I’m pushing 62 and not diabetic, while my cousins all were by 40, must be doing something right.

Stop eating it....😅 Duh

The FDA doesn't do most of our food regulation the USDA does and both organizations don't "approve" food they "ban" food once it's proven to be unsafe. Unlike the EU where they have to prove something is safe before they can use it.

Brushing your teeth too often harms your gums. That doesn't make it dangerous.

Yes, ban everything that contains calories

Yeah. We need more government. 👎🏻

Uh no. Please literally just google food insecurity. You almost understood when you said that Lays and Coke could get there, but fail to understand they have no access to nutritional healthy food. Obesity usually ties in with malnutrition for a reason.

They have access to it, but they sell it for profit and eat the cheaper industrialized foods. Over 14% of the GDP for Honduras is agriculture related. They typically lack the education needed to understand a balanced diet (like most people in North America) and/or they know and can't afford to not sell it. Whereas in the US the problem is the ability to access and afford healthier options (atleast in part). ​@chasebarber10

But that's a bit of a nonstarter situation isnt it (and sorry, a bit silly). So we cant do anything unless it solves the real reasons? People wont start dieting, eating healthy and working out. They just wont. Not for many years. I definitely dont think giving everyone medicine is the answer, not until a lot of studies have been done, especially long term. But it's like... it's still worthwhile to put a bucket under a hole in your roof. Sure, there's still a hole in your roof, but at least your house aint flooding while you're patching it up.

​@@melanp4698well said

Psych department has not been successful in bringing down weights either. I think they’re mature enough not to collectively laugh at her statement. But nice try for deceptive use of “psychologist”.

In the full interview she talks about how it's a combination of factors that would help. She doesn't vouch for medication only, but proper evaluation techniques, proper exercise that targets muscle growth, proper eating, proper medical follow up, AND medication. She doesn't sell the drug as a miracle drug that will solve it all. In fact she vouches for reducing patients' doses of the medication as they lose weight and are able to keep it off with the combination of factors being targeted. If the patient can be weaned off completely, even better.

That’s what I thought. Just like any kind of ED you would think that people who overeat would need to be psychologically evaluated and get professional psychological treatment first to help treat the core cause that encourages these overeating habits that lead to obesity. Instead of a quick fix that only has temporary physical effects.

To think that in a feel years half or the worldwide population will be obese is mind blowing. We should stop romaticizing obesity, it is truly an epidemic

What argument?

@@charleneremillard574 no argument, but an opposing veiw

He’s being curious, and asking questions, instead of “destroying her with the facts”. He’s actively listening.

@@DarkLordAli95 absolutely 🤲🏼💡

​@@DarkLordAli95it's hard to destroy her with facts when she has the facts clearly on her side given the obesity epidemic in the US

Sugar and fat over everything. I smell obesity in many comments. America is too entitled to even consider itself fat.

They are right

@@The_king567 no, no. It’s well known that doctors get money from Big Pharma for written prescriptions, as verified by the highjacked psychic friends network via the hand wave system. Or something.

You say that when you need glasses? Your arm fixed? Have a really bad cold? Headaches? Broken Arm? Maybe someday a new hip you need? No? Damn that’s crazy.

​@@FlareonOW Being able to put things into perspective and be nuanced is an important skill. Is modern healthcare a net positive? Yes Does it have negative parts? Also yes. Consider the opioid epidemic. Is it a good idea to give the majority of people medication against obesity instead of fixing underlying issues that cause it? I really don't think so, don't you?

And what's the chance of that ever happening?

Please add more safe bike and walking routes which will improve physical fitness.

She's just saying it because, well, she's being paid first of all, but because she knows large company owners will not concede to any responsibility they are not actually forced to think about.

​@@melanp4698As soon as the person makes the decision to do it. That's exactly what my family did, and we've lost so much weight collectively.

​@@melanp4698so drugs it is? Are you serious?

These people who are taking Ozempic usually are the same ones who regain their weight after their bypass surgeries. I've witnessed it multiple times myself. I don't believe that it's uncontrollable to the point of requiring medication (in general). If it's controllable through the individual, then medication is unnecessary and shouldn't be used. If it's an uncontrollable medical issue that can't be controlled by the individual, then why is our obesity pandemic so historically sudden? It's always been people with virtually unlimited amounts of food, such as kings and wealthy Romans, who would vomit in between courses so they could keep eating. In the modern day, most people essentially eat like kings.

Very few people are fat because of an eating disorder.

Lol. Ozempic makes you stop being hungry. That's as close to a root cause as there is. Overeating isn't primarily a psychological problem that you can fix, as though it were a broken bone. People have varying degrees of satiation, and food has been getting less satisfying and more calorie dense over time. Now we've passed a threshold where most people's natural inclinations no longer keep them at a normal weight. Three options: Intense societal pressure (i.e. Japan) Serious regulation of food (nobody has done this) Medication

@@kanucks9 I’m a therapist who works in trauma, and I can tell you eating disorders are directly related to childhood abuse, which means over eating and under eating

Being poor is not an excuse. You can still find cheap "healthier" food but if you don't want too. Just don't eat as much when you're at a fast food place...

Most obese people have eating disorder. They binge eat n some of them even don't eat for a few days then binge eat again. Also almost everyone overeats. Plates should be like half the size. I lost weight when I measured my portions

Most obese people that i have met eat so much more than my healthy diet that it usually costs them more! Eat less eat somewhat healthy and boom you are not obese anymore unless you have a medical condition that prevents you from losing weight (most obese people just eat and eat and eat and eat tho)

​@@evertisakjulius2249the problem is that healthy foods are much more expensive both time and money wise, both of which poor people often times lack. And not only that but they also spoil faster and are less energy dense than unhealthily and cheap food, which is energy dense and usually has a longer shelf life.

Personal responsibility. We are NOT sheep.

When our medical system is as fudged as it is, people often can't afford, through time, money, or both, the therapy and everything to change their behavior around eating. Doctors turned to this because it's a relatively affordable and effective way to get the result for a lot of people... Would it be better for people not to take a drug like this and get comprehensive therapy to change their behavior? Yes. But that's a big ask.

Let me know when you've changed America's Healthcare system. Everybody can wait.

I disagree. We need to do whatever it takes to get people healthy, and if using a drug like semiglutide to help start the weight loss process would help, then we shouldn't be withholding it. Ideally people do it without medication, but medication can be the best thing for some people.

The root of the problem is that Americans think that "70% sugar free" is good enough because 70 is a large number. It's a problem not only of the health care system, but also of the education system.

When you get a patient in who is obese, and tell them "follow this diet and exercise plan," I think you already know the average result. Most people are already on the "last resort" as you call it. If you tell them, take this medicine, the result is way different.

To add ozempic works by slowing down digestion making you fuller longer. But if on it for an extended period of time this could become permanent and you end up with gastro paresis or a paralyzed stomach where you.will constantly have problems digesting your food for life

It's so sad that whenever the media is talking about obesity and fat people it's always about food, medication and surgeries. I rarely hear someone talk about the psychological aspect of it. When someone is in the obese category it's most likely not just about liking food and more about underlying mental health issues...

There’s also serious concerns about long term damage from that drug. Listened to an interview about a class action that has been filed on Majority Report. It’s good to be skeptical of meds that all of a sudden are being heavily advertised especially in the wellness world. Obesity in the US has a lot to do with poverty, car centric infrastructure and availability of cheap processed foods than some individual moral failing.

I agree with this whole-heartedly. There are so many underlying reasons that a person considered overweight or obese. Being obese may be a result of stress, health issues, etc. But people also fail to realise that being underweight can also be a result of the same issues. Yet, being obese is scrutinized far more often than being underweight.

My doctor told me to lose weight so I did. 31kg. It's up to the individual to get up off the lazy backsides and take responsibility instead of wailing about discrimination like a toddler.

Even more than that 80% as I know is somewhere between 90 to 100%.

Don't take drugs.

She did not said that easily. If you've watched full episode, she states all the nuances.

When I had covid, I've had lung issues and Doctors prescribed treatments with antibiotics cause it was very serious. They've told me 'yes, these injections will harm your immune system long term. But we have to fight covid now to have chances to fight with everything at all.' Obesity takes lives in US. Ozempic isn't the best solution, but it's a solution non the less. Obviously it's not a healthy thing to use it like celebs do, for the sake of 15 kgs.

FACTS

It’s not just corn subsidies. It’s high cholestorol in most processed foods, saturated fats, refined sugars and primarily stems from poor education.

And toxic vegetable oils

@@rouseinthehouse_seed oils yes, olive oil absolutely not

@@Annika4470 Saturated fats and high cholesterol foods can affect your heart health but they are not the primary cause of obesity. That’s sugar. Anything that breaks down into glucose including complex carbohydrates contributes, but because complex carbs usually come with filling fiber they are not the primary cause. It is almost exclusively sugars. What I mean by sugars is, yes processed cane sugar, but first and foremost it’s high fructose corn syrup. Which is derived from corn supported by corn subsides. It’s 100% glucose so it goes directly into your body needing no digestion, and in 2009 it made up 10.2% of total daily calories for people in the US. I can only imagine that has increased in the years since. It’s in nearly every cracker, bread, soda, juice, jelly, salad dressing, etc. Certainly in everything sweet and often even in things you wouldn’t consider sweet. This adds completely empty calories to the staple foods people, especially low income people, rely on for survival. If everyone could avoid 10% of their calorie intake imagine what that would do for obesity levels. Maybe take them back to pre1980 levels? I say that year for a specific reason. This isn’t some cultural shift or miseducation about portion sizes. This was a literal government plan started in the 1930s and worsened by Reagan in the 1980s. By subsidizing corn, a crop that if grown GMO and with chemical fertilizers would grow EXTREMELY consistently from year to year, they would create such a consistent food source that food shortages would stop completely. It would make their seat of power stable, bread and circuses style. They managed to stabilize supply so that we would always have an excess. The stability they created allowed for complex food systems, like many processed foods require, and the natural processes of the system meant that they found novel uses for the corn excess, ie shoving 10% more calories into everything we eat and feeding it to all of our livestock, many of which can barely survive on corn. Most other “processed foods” are also corn derivatives. Not just fructose, but also maltose, dextrose, and most of those ingredients you can’t pronounce, all are hidden forms of corn. These uses only exist because corn is cheap and corn is only cheap because it’s subsidized. Stopping corn subsidies would instantly alter our entire food system. Likely putting an instant dent in obesity but also sacrificing the stability which is the foundation of our entire food system. I’m ready for it. Corn is poison pretending to be food. But for many low income Americans dependent on the cheap sh*tty ingredients that come from corn, that policy change would lead to starvation. In food deserts across the US fast food and corn-based nonperishables are all they have access to and can afford. Stop blaming “poor education” and individuals when these are clearly choices made by the government. Everyone knows they shouldn’t be eating sugar. This is not an education issue. It’s an issue of access and affordability because of lazy failures to control supply and demand.

Dr Mike fatphobia allegations returning in full spirit and this time I might actually see something to them, immediately searching for unhealthy ways to lose weight rather than treating people as individuals. At the very least this person you're interviewing is fatphobic, not that she hates fat people probably but in the sense she has no empathy for fat people so doesn't understand any of the actual causes

It's all by design

@@bobholyoake8577 no it’s not lmao. Humans aren’t smart enough to predict anything, let alone complex international outcomes across generations. Y’all are so conspiratorial.

plant a garden it’s also a great way to get your body out in the sun and moving as well as helping with your diet overtime

I have pcos, hypothyroid, depression and insulin resistance. Ozempic had make me feel 100 times better. I have the energy and mental clarity to focus on those other issues and make healthy decisions for my body and brain. I’m not on anything for depression anymore and I feel great. I was depressed before gaining 100 pounds. Losing 5-10 pounds a month is just a bonus and part of it is from having the energy to make healthy food and do activities

For me it was similar I went to an endocrinologist for some weird stuff that signaled a thyroid issue. They tested my blood sugar and went over my body noting things. We talked about how I gained a lot of weight after hurting my spine. So after all this they explained what they wanted to test for and that my blood sugar was too high and I needed weight loss to make it easier to workout without back pain. The drug came with strings. I needed to eat healthier and work out or I would just be injecting myself for fun.

My sister also has PCOS and lost over 100 pounds after she worked with a good doctor and did NOT need to take Ozempic.

Wow, that is absolutely not the right thing to offer a patient trying to lose a little weight. 100lbs maybe if active diets are failing and health is declining. You can definitely make progress on your own and I'm glad you resisted that temptation. Good luck on your journey!

I have PCOS & recently diagnosed with MS as well. My ability to be active has been declining rapidly over the past two years & I've been so worried about gaining more weight than I currently have. My spouse recently underwent a gastric bypass, so I've been following his diet guidelines to be supportive. So far, I've lost 10lbs, but it doesn't feel like enough. I want to exercise, but I can't even walk down my street & back(uphill) without feeling short of breath & like I'm going to pass out. 😩 It's difficult just to do ADLs some days. I wish there was a drug that could just melt the fat cells away, but I'm already dealing with so much right now, I wouldn't want to chance side effects from something like Ozempic. It doesn't help that I have a history of being bulimic as a teen & go through periods where I will either forget to eat or actively starve myself. Between my broken brain & crazy hormone fluctuations, my body probably doesn't know what the hell it should do & I have no clue how to get my metabolism to actually work right. 😩

@@lolraacheel Your sister is also not the OP. Everyone's body, mind and external situation is different. Not everyone has a good doctor who has the time to work with their patients like that, sadly. Likewise, not every patient has the means to work with a good doctor. It's great that your sister was able to lose over 100lbs without Ozempic. All success for better health, whether facilitated by medication or not, should be celebrated. Personally, I'm just happy that people are out there and are seeing this is a problem, and are asking for help.

I agree. I think she, despite being an expert, is biased by her experience of seeing patients at their worst and most desperate. Meeting with her as a patient is a last resort after you’ve tried everything and you’re exhausted. To her, she likely perceives so much of the world as these cases. And they might be, but we don’t know for sure. As well, even though we’ve had these drugs for 20 years and there’s research, we still don’t actually have that much clinical data. She may have a lot of anecdotal data from her patients about safety and efficacy, but that’s not the same as conducting actual rigorous clinical research on humans, and a lot of doctors forget that because they’re not scientists.

She's also not considering how many eating disorders form as a result of ozempic.

Obesity IS a disease. But yeah her "solution" is definitely not a good one. The problem is how long we're gonna keep doing nothing before we turn into WALL-E humans.

@@ch3rrywave If someone needs ozempic they already have an eating disorder

@@1349-o2mOzempic is specifically for diabetics. So no, that’s not true. Really sick of people being so dismissive of the fact that it’s literally not recommended as a weightloss drug on OZEMPICS OWN WEBSITE.

I just want to encourage you if you're on thyroid medication you probably need to have your hormone levels looked at as well.. be very careful using the other medication that you're using. Studies have shown it's a major player in causing a dramatic increase in heart attacks. If you're on thyroid medication chances are your other hormones are off too.

It's a shot, but you're right. Some few may have the determination and ability to change their habits to reduce their food intake even while not on the medication. But most won't.

YES!! I totally agree it's awful. Its many other medications that's similar but made for weight loss like wegovy that isn't for people with diabetes

Scale up manufacturing

A lot of countries have a major obesity problem. Not just an American thing.

… most obese people are prediabetes or diabetic so 😂 where the argument? People 50 lbs over shouldn’t take it but people over 100+ lbs are generally diabetic or prediabetic. So this argument is almost invalid

@@mariafoslihansen7801wegovy and ozempic are the same thing babe 😂 just more concentrated ghp1 inhibitor and approved for weightloss

Agreed. More money and less stress would solve so much. We work too much, sleep too little, and are in a chronic state of hyperfixation. We’re obsessed with convenience and ease.

While I agree somewhat, it's pretty wrong to imply that just writing them a prescription is some sort of cop out. Doctors are not lawmakers. They don't have the ability to make healthy food cheaper or make these widespread changes. What they do have is advice, which as we've seen doesn't help much in our environment, and they have semaglutide. If semaglutide helps, why are we denying is usefulness. Obviously we need to make changes that target the root, but why look at a blessing with a horses mouth? Semglutide is good and it's doing what we couldn't do for decades. I am thankful.

That's not just in America. Life here in europe is soul-sucking as well. I understand why people don't have the energy or time to live a healthy life. Society is fxcked up... My dad who has worked his a** off for at least 50 years is now retired and lives on a minimum income for retired people... If that's the thanks we get after being literal slaves our whole lives.. then I don't want to get old.

​@@elin_Wrong answer: don't be a slave. Immortality may not be an option.

A dangerous one, too… 😔

I agree, but.. If we're being honest, people dont eat healthy and exercise, do they? No matter how much they're told. So i'm sorry, not trying to offend you, but it's just such a naive thing to say.

It should be on creating healthy relationships with food and exercise, but some people are too heavy to start without a little help. I know I for one have gained weight from being less active due to chronic pain, and if I didn't have the extra weight it'd be much easier for me to start exercising again and result in less pressure on my joints and therefore less pain and thus more exercise. Some of us need the extra kick in the pants to get the ball rolling. Others are just looking for easy ways to do hard work.

​​@@khaightlynn This is where I'm at. I'm now taking exercise seriously, but it would be nice having something like ozympic to help take off the heavy pounds to make it easier to exercise.

It's all by design

​@@l3ete1geuseIt is way better to exercise than take Ozempic. The majority of people who loose weight on Ozempic will experience more muscle loss than fat loss.

@@l3ete1geuse I can see what you mean, but diet is 2/3 while exercise is less important. Also the heavy pounds are the easiest to lose. But yeah if it's so bad that you can barely walk a mile or walk up a single flight of stairs, then it's extremely hard to get started.

Yes! It can gut paralysis and pancreatitis among them. There is currently a lawsuit involving Ozempic at the moment. It is specifically about the lack of communication around the risks of taking the drug.

⁠@@bluewrites2278from what I have read it is rare to have those side effects and there’s so many pharmaceutical drugs out there that have risky side effects but are unlikely and you always have to weight pros and cons with side effects in drugs.

Every drug has side effects. Prescribers and patients do a risk/benefit analysis. In this case, the risk of not using the drug tends to be worse in the long run.

@@kirby145x Ummm, I meant like cancer, not just getting nausea etc. Of course I know every drug has side effects but I’d rather be a bit bigger and work out and eat better than get thyroid cancer from a random drug.

@@Makeupbyrach18 it's not even known yet if Ozempic causes thyroid cancer. It's just a precaution to people with a family history of that specific cancer because it happened in rats during testing. If it does occur in humans, it's exceptionally rare.

Because not everyone can do it through natural methods unless they're forced to. Call it laziness or whatever you want, but being able to instantly "cure" one of the largest burdens on our Healthcare system without forcing people to significantly change their lifestyles is probably the best solution we have to fix this issue. Food education hasn't worked, restricting portion sizes hasn't worked, shaming people hasn't worked. At some point we have to accept this is the world we have and go from there.

It’s at the point where normal sized people are most likely already eating very little in their attempts to lose weight and reducing portions even further would be risky or trigger a binge-and-restrict cycle. Reducing portions isn’t sustainable for most people. Everyone who has ever tried to lose weight will have done the “natural methods” already, no one just wakes up one day and immediately decides they want to lose weight and jumps directly into medication.

Fixing portion size would prevent a lot of people from becoming obese in the first place, but once people are obese, it's more difficult.

@@alexandernoe1619 portion size control doesn't work because people would just order double portions.

People in the US have little, if any, self control. This drug bypasses that issuetm. Bjh&&&h

It caused kidney failure for my mom.

Crazy, I didn't know that was a side effect. How interesting, thank you for sharing. I'm going to look into that!

@@jenniferh.2150you sure it wasn’t the diabetes

@@PhilRichardson-cp7kv Yes. There was a study conducted and there’s a higher rate of kidney failure in people that have pre-existing kidney issues like kidney stones.

Diabetes causes gastroparesis and kidney failure..

surprise surprise. she works for big pharma. like no joke, she's a pharma sales rep

@@Elevated_AJ I am aware. It takes almost no effort at all to lose credibility online yet a lifetime to build it up. Mike should be careful.

There is an entire videos on Dr. Mikes channel. This is a clip from that entire hour podcast. She does have the credentials in weight management.

@@kimberlybeth I smell another vested interest.

Girl if you’re not obese why are you on it? It won’t kill you, if you’re fat. Obese people can last MONTHS without food 😂.. you look obese in your photo so

​@@nameofchannel964have you actually watched the full interview? I think they go through a lot of the intricacies of the treatment. She's not advocating some wonder drug

​@@pandax5359yes she is

​@@pandax5359of course they didn't watch the whole thing 😅

At my county hospital, psychological services for obese patients are only offered through the weight surgery program and not the weight management program. It’s a big shame

So we "should" do A, which we'll not be doing, so therefore we definitely shouldnt do B. I dont want to medicate everyone by any means, but your statement is frankly just extremely naive and, i'm sorry, but not particularly intelligent.

Yes!

When BMI is over 30 you’re not a celebrity.

Obesity is not a cosmetic problem

@@sarahteagarden9409 obesity isn’t. Using ozempic to make yourself look skinnier is tho

@@chunkymonkey4868 I was obese and I used mounjaro to save my life. 5’2” 165 pounds, to 116 pounds, not for cosmetic reasons, for a better quality of life!

Yes. Everyone says "why don't try this instead" dosnt get that the doctors can't make people eat healthier or take care of them self. It's them self's that has to take the responsibility to be healthy and if they need help that's what the doctor can help with it is as simple as that. I get SO annoyed with people saying "ehh that's fatphobic" NO THEY ARNT. They are doctors and can only help with medication if people can't help themselves. SO happy that someone thinks the same way

Swimming is great for this

There are plenty of exercises that can be done to help avoid impact or joint pain (stationary bike, rowing , swimming, elliptical, etc.). Don’t make excuses, make progress!

You are far too unhealthy for ozempic

Make America slim again!?

Poor impulse control and subconsciously eating is considered a disorder. You need professional help.

@@lukeforbes2008 Would I consult with primary care first so they can recommend me? I had a nutritionist and personal trainer but neither stuck.

HOLY BASED- In all seriousness though, intuitive eating really is insanely underrated. It doesn’t help how there’s so much stigma around it, thanks to diet culture and the rampant fatphobia that plagues our society on the minute. These medications are literally just glorified appetite suppressants, which you can literally get the same effects with a plain cup of coffee daily, although of course it’s only temporary because as you experienced, they basically condition your body to starve itself. I know it all too well. :/ As a former person of size who also struggled with eating disorders and food addiction, IE helped me get to a healthy state better than anything I’ve ever tried, and it also helped me to restore my own relationship with food. I’d like to see an interview too tbh.

huh.....

You can't afford to eat less and walk more?

@@tradconmom92 I'm actually a dancer. Something that takes a lot of physical activity. Besides that, think about this: I usually can't afford to buy meats and fresh fruits slash vegetables, usually resorting to cans of beans and bread. Meat veggies and fruit have essential nutrients to your body, so when you're not getting them your body starts storing fat like crazy because it thinks there's little to no food. Maybe think a bit more before you post an ignorant comment.

Eating less food will actually save you money

​@@ctrl-alt-smilehey dude. Try buy frozen fish n meat. That's what I do. U can cook like a big stew or soup and the freeze it. Bread is unfortunately very bad. Unless is 100% sourdough.