The “Dark Side” Of Ozempic (HEALTH PROFESSIONAL EXPLAINS)

If you or a loved one has thought about taking Ozempic or any other similar weight loss drugs, you are going to want to watch this video until the very end. Today, I am going to explain what Ozempic is, how it works for weight loss, and what you should consider if you are taking or thinking of takin

if you take OIC or know someone that does you need to watch this video or at least share it with that person for those that don’t know what OIC is it’s a weight loss drug okay and it belongs to a class of drugs called glp1 Agonist and the specific drug OIC is actually known as semi glued which is the generic name for it there’s a lot of different drugs that fall into the gp1 class and there’s a lot of them that actually have different names for the same generic drug of semaglutide but in general what it does is it helps people who struggle with losing weight to Lose It by taking a different approach for many years we’ve had drugs that sort of sped up the calories out portion of the calories in calories out equation right so they were amphetamine based drugs that basically were causing accelerated activity to try to drop more calories and lose weight but they also came with a lot of really bad side effects this class is working more on the calories in portion of the equation so on controlling appetite at the neurological level at the central level trying to control your appetite and also by delaying gastric emptying so keeping the food that’s in your stomach there longer leaving you feeling more full for a longer period of time hopefully leading to less calories taken in now there’s two different names you might have heard if it wasn’t OIC maybe you heard something called wovi and they are both semi glutide and they have different application so OIC actually has been out and approved since 2017 for type 2 diabe itics well goie is one that’s been used more recently I think since 2021 which is for people who are overweight or deemed to be significantly overweight or obese so with a BMI greater than 30 so different populations same drug slightly different doses I believe but the same end effect great we’re all good on that for those that have actually needed it this drug has been a GameChanger because as I said before it’s produced the result people are looking for at at a lower risk to their overall health or with less side effects and again I think that sometimes people are quick to judge very overweight people who struggle with their weight and I have to say that I’ve even walked the line from time to time and I kick myself when I do of blaming someone’s lack of dedication on the end result of them having a severe weight issue it it’s not always that guys they could they could do the same things that we do in terms of showing up to the gym putting in the effort but they have such metabolic Mayhem going on that they can’t escape that and nothing works and there needs to be something less judgment and more options for people who find themselves in that position and this drug is actually doing that so I think that’s a great thing but with everything that brings good to the world there’s often a you know misuse of that and there’s no doubt that a large percentage of the people that are using this drug are doing so because they want to lose let’s say 10 pounds for the vacation coming up not only has that caused sort of some issues for the people who actually need it there’s a shortage of Supply uh the price has skyrocketed right the stocks are doubled in price these are things that happen when people sort of misuse or abuse the medications that were intended for other people however what makes this even more misguided is when you now consider the fact that the side effect of OIC and others in this class that doesn’t get talked about enough is where your loss of weight is coming from because with these drugs there’s a significant amount of loss of lean tissue of lean muscle mass that becomes a significant problem for anyone taking these drugs and it’s something that you need to be aware of whenever you lose weight especially a significant amount of weight there’s going to be a portion of that lost weight that comes from both body fat and from muscle however your job is to try to mitigate the amount of loss that comes from muscle tissue because that’s the metabolic active portion of the equation here in a typical situation if someone is training and engaging in strength training along the way you want to minimize that loss of muscle contribution to let’s say 8% of the total loss up to maximum let’s say 15% the the lower the better there and the majority of that loss should come from body fat and when you’re talking about even a more minimal loss of body weight you want to do this over for a long period of time because the longer you do this over the better control you have over that distribution of whether it be muscle or fat with these drugs the weight loss is significant and it’s usually rather quick so your control over where it comes from is not as good but what makes it even more disturbing is instead of a 8 to 15% Max Muscle loss they were showing accelerated losses of muscle mass that went up to as high as 25 or 35% that’s not good there is actually one study and only one study so far but it showed a middle-aged woman I believe she was 47 years old who developed severe rabdom mysis when taking semaglutide now rabom miysis is something that you often times hear about with let’s say CrossFit like when you completely overdo your training severe overtraining and that causes a breakdown of muscle tissue that releases chemicals into the bloodstream that are indicative of this being present she was developing radom mysis from taking this drug now who knows what the connection was but we know that there’s this accelerated lean muscle loss from taking the drug what is it doing to the muscle that’s creating something like that when they removed the drug from her protocol the condition went away when they reintroduced semaglutide to her protocol the condition came back and she wasn’t training this was rabom miysis that came from no induced training effect now in my world if someone asked me to help them lose weight if I create anywhere near a 25 to 35% loss coming from muscle i’ get fired that’s not good because what that’s going to do is lead to that skinny fat physique right I promis you I’d come back to my world here skinny fat physique is what people ask me to get away from they don’t want to have that look this is what it looks like here for those of you who are unaware it’s a lower body weight person but not carrying any lean muscle mass that doesn’t really look that good as it is again it’s kind of like soft and skinny not a good look the problem that comes as a result of being skinny fat at the end of any weight loss attempt is that you have less metabolically active tissue to help you to hold off or fend off additional weight gain when you start to eat like you were before you started your diet or your weight loss attempt because inevitably that usually happens especially if you’re not using a drug to sort of assist you in doing that that’s a problem okay so we always want to maintain as much muscle mass as possible now I’m going to make this even worse throw in the equation here that aging presents some problems for us all there’s an inevitable loss in both strength and muscle size as we get older and it can become more or less pronounced depending upon whether or not you’re engaging in physical activity or regular strength training so what we normally see when people don’t engage in any type of activity at all is a 30 to 50% total loss in strength and muscle size by the time they’re in their 70s starting at the age of 30 that’s a big steep decline that occurs between those few decades there if you lose that much strength and size you’re going to have a worse quality of life when you’re in your