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Sarah Kennedy: Calocurb CEO on Wegovy becoming available in New Zealand · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The drug that's made the Hollywood celebrities skinny and looking
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  Speaker 1: fabulous again is coming to New Zealand. The ozempic style
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  Speaker 1: weight loss drug Waygovy will be available here from Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: To get it, though, you're going to need a prescription
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  Speaker 1: from your doctor. Sarah Kennedy is the CEO of Callo
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  Speaker 1: curb And is that a US conference right now in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas apparently for ozempic and is with us on
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  Speaker 1: the phone, Sarah, good morning, Hi Ryan, how I'm good things.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do at an ozempic conference? Do they
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  Speaker 1: feed you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not actually an o Zimpic conference. It's the
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  Speaker 2: largest esthetic show in America, so out there they have
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  Speaker 2: everything there, but weight management is a key part of it.
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  Speaker 2: They have a lot of medi spars that go so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Is there much demand? Do you think there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a lot of demand for waygov in New Zealand?
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  Speaker 2: Well, if it follows the US, yes, over twelve percent,
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  Speaker 2: over twelve percent of the Marria can have either been
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  Speaker 2: on or are on. We're go v now. So it's
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  Speaker 2: massive growth here and yeah, it's a household name.
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  Speaker 1: Cost is also massive though apparently four hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: dollars and six hundred dollars for a pack of five pens. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: is this going to be a p Is it going
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  Speaker 1: to be in reach for the people who might need
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  Speaker 1: it most?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is expensive and in fact in the US
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  Speaker 2: for that pack it's about a thousand US dollars, so
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  Speaker 2: not quite as much in New Zealand, but yes, it
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  Speaker 2: will be between five or six hundred sALS. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: five hundred to six hundred dollars. I think people have
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  Speaker 2: to be aware of, you know, first of all, the cost,
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  Speaker 2: it is very expensive. I think secondly, the side effects.
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  Speaker 2: Over seventy percent of people will have gastro intestinal problems
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  Speaker 2: and that really can go from nausea to constipation to
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  Speaker 2: even diary. But you know, so there are signal and
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  Speaker 2: when you're taking any drug there are side effects and
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  Speaker 2: these have significant gashtro and testinal effects. And the third
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  Speaker 2: thing I think people have to be aware of is
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  Speaker 2: that over two thirds, so over seventy percent of people
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  Speaker 2: regain the weight in a year. So without lifestyle changes,
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  Speaker 2: that weight's just going to come straight back on. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not great weight when it comes on because you
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  Speaker 2: also on wed go, you lose a lot of muscle,
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  Speaker 2: so you leave both fat and muscle. So when the
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  Speaker 2: weight comes back on, you're going to get more fat.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, you've got to remember that. So the
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  Speaker 2: lifestyle changes are important.
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  Speaker 1: You've be skinny fat when you come back from it,
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  Speaker 1: which is not it will be.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a longer, longer for me yo yo darting
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  Speaker 2: while we're here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're I mean, this is what I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to say as you would say this, wouldn't you because
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  Speaker 1: you're not you know, obviously going to go to your
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  Speaker 1: GP to get way over. But you're doing more natural stuff,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you. So that's what you're kind of trying to
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  Speaker 1: get people on, is it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a combination, you see. So CALICLEB does so
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  Speaker 2: we understand was developed by the New Zealand government. This
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  Speaker 2: is over fifteen years of research and thirty million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: So we actually discovered this and I'm selling it here
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  Speaker 2: in the years. So how practitioners, so the conference we're
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  Speaker 2: going to as all doctors, they call them practitioners, and
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  Speaker 2: how they're using it as they're using it as an alternative.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's just what you said. The Secondly, they're
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  Speaker 2: using it in combination so they can do what they
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  Speaker 2: can lower the dose of we're go v right down
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  Speaker 2: to its lowest level, which lowers its cost and lowers
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  Speaker 2: its lowers its cost and lowers its side effects. And
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  Speaker 2: the third way they're using it, which is an absolute must,
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  Speaker 2: is when people are coming off the drug right because
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  Speaker 2: when you tie trait off, you're natural. Because what we're
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  Speaker 2: going it's a synthetic version of our appetite suppressing fill.
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  Speaker 1: Mode, which is what stops you wanting to step stuff
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  Speaker 1: food down your mouth, isn't it, Sarah. We have to
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  Speaker 1: leave it there and we will let you get back
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  Speaker 1: to your conference and really appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: That's Sarah Kennedy, chief executive of Callo Curb. For more
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