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Ozempic, Trizepatide & The Truth About the ‘Magic’ Weight-Loss Shot · The Diva Details

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Well, hello. This is Diva Mia. Today, we're going to talk a little bit about weight loss drugs.
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They've been all the rage lately. In fact, the president has a discounted weight loss drugs.
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You're going to be hearing more and more about it soon, I think,
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as they're becoming very, very affordable, and insurance is going to be covering
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some of it for some people as well.
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Today, we're going to talk a little bit about the weight loss drugs.
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There's been different weight loss drugs over time, but the big rage right now is GLP-1s.
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Semiglutides, trisepatides, those type of things are the big rage in weight
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loss. People are always looking for the magic pill, I think.
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Whether it's, you know, decreasing their cholesterol, losing weight.
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And they have one, finally, for weight loss that seems to work for most people.
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Now, I'm going to say most people, but not all. There are some side effects
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that we're going to discuss that you need to be very concerned about if you're
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going to go on one and just keep a track of your body and how you're feeling.
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These medications, they curb appetite, but if you skip training,
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like strength training and exercise, you're going to lose a lot of muscle weight.
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Remember, it's a magic pill for weight loss, But you may lose weight,
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but after you're off of the medications, if you don't gain muscle mass during
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it, you may end up gaining the weight back and then some.
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Remember that it does help with weight loss, but it does not guarantee you're
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going to be thin for the rest of your life.
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Make sure that while you're on these medications, you're still lifting weights.
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You're still lifting fairly heavy. You're still doing cardio, etc.
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And there's side effects. There's nausea.
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There's sometimes you get stomach issues. Sexually, sometimes your orgasms will change.
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Your skin might start to sag. They call it ozempic phase when your skin starts to sag.
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And then you could also have some hormonal shifts because it does change your
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hormones, too, because as you lose weight, you're going to change your hormones, too.
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So today I want to kind of dive deep, deep into the diet.
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Now, we have talked about weight loss drugs before, and I shared my story about
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how I had some side effects with it. And I'll touch on that basically today.
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But I do want everyone to understand that this is going to be a part of most
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people's lives. Now, I will say, out of every three people, I think at least
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one person that I know is currently on one of these medications,
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if they're in their 40s, 50s, or 60s.
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It's good to have people getting in shape and healthy, but I just want to caution
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you, it's not a magic bullet. If you're not going to work out,
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you'll gain it all back and then some.
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So, diet and exercise is still going to be important and so are supplements, okay?
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And then today, I'm also going to tell you a little bit about other things you
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can do instead of GLP-1s to get a similar effect, all right?
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So, let's dive in. And traditional methods have always been cut your calories.
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Now, we've talked about this last week and we discussed...
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How just cutting calories doesn't work because the quality and the macros matter as well.
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Just cutting calories, if you eat a thousand calories of Doritos versus a thousand
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calories of broccoli, you're going to gain a lot more weight from the Doritos.
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So realize that you're cutting calories is not a end-all be-all.
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The quality of calories matter.
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The thing about a lot of these new GLP-1s, etc., is they're going to slow the
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emptying of your stomach.
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So when the emptying of your stomach is slowed, you tend to eat less food.
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So it basically allows the trigger in your mind that says, hey, am I full, to turn on.
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One of the other things that people have been doing a lot lately is intermittent fasting.
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Intermittent fasting has been the rage. And so basically what you're doing is
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you decrease fasting to just a small window every single day.
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Maybe you go into a couple day prolonged fasting here and there.
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But that's been a rage lately. And it's been working for a lot of people.
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So that does work. A lot of people don't want to do it, though.
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I think a lot of people would rather take a pill or a shot instead of doing that type of work.
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Then you've got strength, training, cardio, and that's the end-all be-all that
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that gives you the best overall physique as well. But lifestyle first has to change.
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You've got to look at your whole life. If you really want to get serious and
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lose weight, whether you're on these GLP ones or not, you need to look at your whole life.
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You've got to work on sleep. Sleep is amazing. If you can get high quality sleep,
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you will find that the weight comes off much easier because sleep helps you
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process out toxins. It helps you get rid of cortisol. It helps you get rid of cortisol.
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Which, you know, is a stress hormone, which then cortisol leads to weight gain.
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It decreases your insulin while you sleep.
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All of these things help. It decreases your stress.
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Sleep is so very important. Stress management is important, too.
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I mean, if you're trying to lose weight and you're stressed out,
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you're not going to lose weight.
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I know a lot of people that have been in bad relationships, and they just gain
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weight because the relationship is so bad.
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Or they're in a bad job, and they gain weight from the job.
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Remember that if you're in stressful situations all the time,
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you're going to gain weight.
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And you need time to decompress, to relax, to recover, and then your hormones will start to balance.
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When you're stressed out, your cortisol is through the roof,
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which is a hormone, and your insulin goes through the roof, and you become insulin sensitive.
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All the GLP wants is supposed to help with this. I will say there's some really
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good medical research out there that shows that it does help with this.
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Then there's the people that do bariatric surgery.
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Bariatric surgery is kind of extreme. That's for the people that can't get a
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candle on their eating. They don't want to intermittent fast,
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or they can't. They don't feel like they can.
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Basically, they're going to chop up their stomach. So bariatric surgery is going
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to go through and it's going to decrease the size of your stomach.
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And they will help you lose weight.
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Now, a problem that people go through with bariatric surgery is a lot of them,
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when they're doing this, they get their gallbladder removed.
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Because as soon as they slow down their eating, they're going to lose massive
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weight and they're going to have a gallbladder attack.
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Remember that bariatric surgery, you could also lose your gallbladder.
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There's other things. You could have other complications as well.
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A lot of people that have bariatric surgery, they lose weight so fast that they
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need to have skin surgery.
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Although there's people that don't do bariatric surgery that do skin surgery too. So.
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Just remember that. It's one of the other extreme options.
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I personally would, if someone can be on a GLP-1 versus a bariatric surgery
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and they get the same results, I think the GLP-1 would be a better route to go.
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Surgery seems so invasive to me to get to the same results. If you can get there on a GLP-1, great.
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And I think maybe what will happen is a lot of companies will want you to be
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on this first or at least try it out. Then there's liposuction.
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Now, liposuction is not weight loss.
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Liposuction is for you to get the last 5-10 pounds reshaped.
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Maybe you've got a little bit of stubborn fat that's not coming off.
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That's what liposuction is before.
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It's not for weight loss. In fact, most places only allow you to take between
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8 and 13 pounds, depending on your state, fat off at a time.
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It's not like you're going to go lose 20-30 pounds via liposuction.
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Most states are very restricted because when you take too much fat out of somebody,
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it can cause blood clots and other problems.
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Liposuction is kind of more of a clean up what you're done after your weight
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loss if you've got like little pockets of fat that are very difficult to get off.
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And then you may have to reconstruct your skin.
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After bariatric surgery, heck, even after GLP-1, if you lose a ton of weight,
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you may have to have a tummy tuck.
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You may have to have an arm lift, a leg lift, a boob lift. I don't know.
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A face lift, a neck lift. All of these things happen when you lose weight.
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And the thing is, is the faster you lose the weight, the more likely you're
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going to have to have skin surgery. So just realize that.
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Now, I know that water fasting, I'm going to throw that in, also helps with
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skin tightening while you're losing weight. There's that as well.
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But today's medication is the focus of the day. So we're going to focus on that.
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These meds will help accelerate your weight loss.
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They're really good at it. I mean, it's going to help it. And I think a lot
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of weight loss for people is the speed.
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And I don't think anybody really talks about that. When you're on a diet,
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and let's say you had a lot of weight to lose. Let's say you have 100 pounds to lose.
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If it's slow, and you know how they say, lose one to two pounds a week.
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And that's great. But if you were like.
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10 to 15 pounds overweight. But if you're 100 pounds overweight and somebody
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tells you it's going to take 100 weeks of the same repetitive exercise to lose
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the weight, I don't think a lot of people have the patience for it.
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And I understand why intermittent fasting has taken off. I understand why prolonged fasting has taken off.
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And even the medications have taken off because people want to lose more than
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a pound a week or two pounds a week.
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And so they want to see immediate results.
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They want to make sure that all their efforts are coming to fruition.
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The best way to see immediate results with the fasting is to,
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or the medications, is to make sure you're working out as well.
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You'll see faster results. You'll get to your weight loss goals faster.
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And you're going to feel better, too. It's going to keep you feeling better.
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So when you're in there, when you're losing the weight, make sure that you're
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also exercising when you're on these medications.
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So let's talk about the medications for a second. So we're going to talk about
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the GLP-1s, which it's a GLP-1 receptor agonist is what it is.
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There's a semaglutide. There's a trisepatide. There's a liraglutide.
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They're originally for type 2 diabetes.
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And the FDA has now approved them for weight loss for obesity.
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Some people that aren't even obese are on them. Some people that just have 10
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to 20 pounds to lose go on them.
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And they basically will slow your stomach down. It's going to reduce appetite.
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It's going to increase feelings of fullness and reduce your hunger.
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Now, I went on them because it's also supposed to decrease your liver enzymes,
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but you can have side effects when you have liver issues. Just be aware of that.
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Most people that go on these are seeing a weight loss of 10% to 20%.
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If you're 200 pounds and you go on one of these semaglutides,
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you'll probably get down to anywhere from 180 to...
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Potentially up to 160. That's a pretty good weight loss, 40 pounds for someone that's 200 pounds.
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The next one is the trisepatide. Now, this is actually a dual agonist.
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The trisepatide will give you even higher and faster weight loss.
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It hits multiple different pathways at the same time. It hits the GLP-1 and
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it hits GIP, which if you can hit multiple ways to lose weight,
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you're going to lose weight faster.
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So the key point for this is to make sure that, you know, these drugs reduce
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appetite, they reduce food intake, but you're still going to need to exercise.
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Okay, don't forget to exercise.
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Because the people that get the Ozempic phase and the people that get the really
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saggy skin from this, it's because they're not exercising.
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They're relying on the magic pill, and they forget that weight loss,
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you also need to gain muscle.
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You want fat loss, not muscle loss, during this whole thing.
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Because if you're getting a bunch of muscle loss, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
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So while the drugs, they reduce your appetite and food intake,
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the exercise and the strength is going to keep the shape of your body.
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How you look is just as important as much as you weigh.
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If you're all skin and no muscle, it is not attractive.
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Honestly, there's been people that have been anorexic and they get so bony and
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they have so much skin hanging off of them.
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That's so unattractive. So make sure to keep your body toned.
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Make sure to keep your muscles where they need to be. I think you'll do better.
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There is a new Trump website that's going to allow you to purchase your weight
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loss medicine at an extreme discount.
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They're talking as low as $50 with insurance.
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Most medications are going to go down 60% to 95%.
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I don't know. I think the website is coming out this week. You still need to
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have a licensed physician prescribing it.
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Just be aware of that. But it's going to allow you to purchase at a big discount.
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A lot of people have been paying anywhere from $1,000 to $3,000 a month for these medications.
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And if they can get them now for a couple hundred to 50 bucks,
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it's going to change the game for a lot of people that are obese and overweight,
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because the reality is a lot of people that are obese and overweight are they're
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in the lower income as well.
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So now you have the ability to decrease your weight, which obesity leads to
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so many other diseases, to cancer, heart disease.
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So it is a good thing overall.
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So getting back to the Trump website. So he basically struck a deal with Wagovi
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and ZepBound, and the price is now going to be $50 to $350, depending on dosage and insurance.
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This is a huge deal, and ZepBound is one of the trizepatides.
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So this is going to be really good for people that really want to lose weight fast.
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And this discount plan is going to be huge. And they have other diabetic GLP-1s
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that they're going to do for $245 to $50 a month as well.
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If you're on Medicare, you're not going to pay over $50 a month. That's really big.
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That's a huge discount for people. And they just negotiate it with the insurance,
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not like it's subsidized by the taxpayers.
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This is something that's really good for people overall because now you're decreasing
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lean on health care. This could have ripple effects throughout the industry.
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It could have ripple effects through all kinds of medicine because if there's
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less people or if there's less people going to the emergency room with heart
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attacks, if there's less people having, you know,
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chronic diseases from obesity, this is going to be a really good thing for our country overall.
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It could save the health industry billions. It's going to be a big saver.
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And with the cost of insurance going up, it could help drive down the cost of regular insurance.
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We will see how this plays out, but it's actually a good thing for the country
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overall. We should all be cheering this on.
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This is a great thing to actually have in place.
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GOP-1s, they're going to lower the risk of heart disease. They're going to help
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decrease your chance of having a heart attack.
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That is huge for people that have a history of.
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Of heart disease. Some data is showing that it could also help cognitive abilities.
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Dementia could decrease. There's other benefits to these GLP-1s.
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So if your dementia goes down, chances of brain health, Alzheimer's,
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those things may decrease.
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And of course, your insulin sensitivity, which means you're going to control
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your glucose levels better.
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Glucose leads to body fats and fatty livers. Your liver could be healthier.
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It'll help with your cholesterol. All those things are really important when you're doing these.
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I know that when you have liver issues, you're going to have elevated lipids
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in your blood. It just, it
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comes with the territory. If you can decrease that potential,
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then you're going to do better.
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If you can decrease the odds of having a fatty liver, your whole body will do
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better. It's going to improve your metabolic health overall.
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Your hormones are probably going to balance out better as well.
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You may have better sexual health, but some people have worse.
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That is a side effect. Some people may have better sexual health.
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Honestly, guys, if you're in better shape and you're more limber,
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you're going to have better sexual health anyway.
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It's just the way it is. Get in shape, lose some weight, and you'll have better sex.
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You're going to have more energy, for sure, because if you're not carrying around
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as much weight, you're not as lethargic, it's going to help with that.
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It's going to help with fatigue.
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The visceral fat, too, is stuff around your belly. The visceral fat is what's around your belly.
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And the thing is, is a lot of people don't realize that the visceral fat is the most deadly.
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It leads to different types of autoimmunes, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease.
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The more likely you get the visceral fat down, the healthier you're going to
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be. And it's going to help you with body confidence.
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And honestly, come on, if you lost 10 pounds around your waist,
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why don't you feel more confident?
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Your body composition overall will go down, which means your natural age.
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This could help with longevity, guys.
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That's what the big thing is, is if people can live longer because of these
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GLP-1s, that's a good thing for everyone.
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We'll keep people around that have the experience and expertise in the world
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longer. But they're not magic, okay?
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And if you're going to be on one of these, you've got to understand that there are side effects.
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This is the ozempics out there. Some of the common side effects are nausea,
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vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, and you're going to have a reduced appetite.
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Just don't do this around. Don't go on a GLP-1 the day before Thanksgiving.
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It would not be advisable. If you lose weight too fast, you're going to get ozempic face, period.
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Some people are actually doing fat transfers from other parts of their body
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to their faces now because of the ozempic face that's happening.
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So there may be some plastic surgery you have to do after this, so just realize that.
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You can have, and it's rare, but I tend to have rare side effects,
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pancreatitis where your pancreas
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has a problem gallbladder disease or a gallbladder attack and then gut
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issues afterwards or and can also impact your kidneys because you're processing a lot of fat fast.
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I had a gallbladder attack because I had one of the rare side effects within
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two weeks of being on this.
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I didn't lose any weight in two weeks and then I ended up having a gallbladder
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attack. Just realize that's a possibility.
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If you have, if you're also out there, if you're high risk for thyroid cancer,
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be careful because it has led to thyroid cancer.
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If you have a history in thyroid, I don't know if I would recommend this.
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You might want to talk to your doctor.
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Of course talk to your doctor on all this you got to get a referral from them but
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thyroid cancer is is a possibility always speak
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to your doctor dosing as well because you're going to change doses the
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doses change as you go through the cycle but i
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will say the people that have been on this and stay on it for over
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a month or so they they seem to like it i will say that they're not having side
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effects they seem to enjoy the consistent weight loss but realize it can affect
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your hormone levels okay energy levels hopefully it increases your sex drive
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but it may not it depends on the person You can have the rapid weight loss if
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you're not strength training.
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I'm telling you guys, you're going to really regret it later because your metabolic
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rate will actually shift downward.
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When you go off this medication, you'll gain weight back. Just try to keep your
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muscle mass up. And muscle takes time to grow.
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It does take time to grow. It's not overnight. It's not like you can go to the
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gym once and you gain like 50 pounds of muscle.
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Muscle takes time to grow. And you probably want to grow five pounds of muscle
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or so while you're on this or more.
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So you need to talk to your doctor to see if you're eligible first.
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Are you eligible? Do you have any comorbidities? Because they're not going to
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give it to everybody just because they want to lose five pounds. Right.
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Your BMI has to be a certain level. You have to be considered overweight or obese, I believe.
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And you have to have other comorbidities, like do you have high blood pressure?
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Do you have high lipids? Do you have autoimmune? Do you have any other types of issues?
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And they will check your hormones a lot of times, just to make sure.
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They're going to check your liver, kidneys, thyroid, hormones.
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They're going to check all that, just to make sure that they know where you're
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at and where you can go into it. But just because you have a liver issue,
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guys, doesn't mean they're going to stop. They gave it to me and I had a liver issue.
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We were doing it thinking that we would actually get a decrease to my liver
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enzymes, but it did not work.
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But what happens after you stop? If you don't have that muscle,
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again, you're going to lose.
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You're going to gain weight. Just realize that. The cost has gone up.
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I mean, the cost is pretty high still, but it's going to go way down very quickly.
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You also need to work probably with a dietician or someone that can help you with your diet.
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Most people say to stay away from the carbs, even on this. decrease your carbs,
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increase your protein, gain some muscle mass, you'll do better off.
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And then we got to talk about the macronutrients.
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You have to have adequate protein no matter what.
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That's so important. If you're going to be working out and lifting weights,
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you need extra protein anyway.
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So last time on our podcast, we talked about how you need to have one gram of protein.
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For every pound of body weight that you want or pound you want to weigh.
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So if you want to weigh 120 pounds, you should be eating 120 grams of protein
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a day. You can go lower to like 0.75 or 0.8.
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But if you're trying to maintain a healthy body, that's where you need to be.
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You need to have those healthy fats for your hormone production as well.
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And then don't forget the veggies for fiber to help process all the toxins out
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when you're losing weight.
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I know people that go 100% on protein, and then they wonder why they don't lose
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weight, they feel like crap because they don't have any fiber that's pushing
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all the toxins out of their digestive system. You want to make sure you stay hydrated.
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Make sure you keep your electrolytes and make sure that you're eating plenty
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of high fiber fruits and vegetables.
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Now fruits not so much because you're trying to lose weight but you should still
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have a little bit of fruit and then have lots of fibrous probably cruciferous
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type vegetables from you know from broccoli from kale to cauliflower to arugula's cruciferous.
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There's lots of different cruciferous vegetables that are really good.
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If you're doing a lot of cleansing, I really like arugula because it helps your liver cleanse too.
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Try to stay with lots of cruciferous vegetables while you're doing a high protein
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diet on these different types of weight loss medications so that you can also
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keep yourself healthy overall and feel well.
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And it'll also speed up your weight loss. Don't forget that food is medicine. It really is.
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Food can help with any type of thing that you're doing. So keep the food as medicine.
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And then remember, you're going to have a decreased appetite,
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but you've also got to manually decrease your portions.
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I think a lot of times people are just habitually used to filling up their plate,
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like overfilling it sometimes.
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Don't be going to a buffet while you're trying to lose weight. Honestly, I.
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Buffets, I think, or those all-you-can-eat sushi places.
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Don't do that if you're on one of these medications. You'll make yourself sick.
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You'll probably throw up if you do that. Don't go to a buffet.
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Try to cut back on your portion sizes and learn a new portion size because the
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portion size is going to be your new lifestyle going forward once you get off this medication.
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Remember that. You can still have flavors that you like, but just decrease your
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portion sizes and try to avoid a crash diet.
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You still have to eat protein. Try not to do so much.
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If you're doing fasting, it's probably not a good idea to do one of these medications.
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But you've got to avoid the low-calorie, the crash diets, because you're going
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to lose muscle mass. It's just the way it is.
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Your metabolism will slow down. The other thing is meal timing.
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Now, I don't think enough people understand meal timing.
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You're going to want to eat protein after you work out. You're going to want
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to emphasize nutrients on timing and support and recovery.
21:45
But here's the thing. A lot of people work out in the morning and then they have their protein.
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If you're working out at night, this is going to be a little bit more difficult,
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but it's still manageable.
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You don't want to eat three or four hours before bed. You want at least a three-hour
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break after your last meal before you fall asleep.
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Here's the thing. Here's the reason why. You want your body to relax.
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You want to have a good night's sleep. You want it to be restful.
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You want to have your liver process out and take a break. So when you're eating
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right before bed, your digestive system's working all night long.
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It may make you uncomfortable. You might have to get up and go to the restroom
22:20
multiple times a night. You may get.
22:22
Have liver issues from it. If you're eating late at night, it's not healthy.
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And I really wish, honestly, they would move the dinner time up to four instead
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of five. And that's just me.
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But five o'clock is like the last time I will ever do dinner because I don't
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like late dinners because it's not good for your digestive system.
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I mean, you may want to skip dinner. You may just want to do breakfast and lunch
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and have a light snack for dinner.
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And that will help as well as far as losing weight. That's going to be additional too.
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A lot of people have, especially when you're slowing down the emptying,
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that food's going to sit in your stomach longer.
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You don't want it sitting in your stomach all night long. You want it processed
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and out of the way. Just remember that.
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Some people get constipated. It's very constipated with this too.
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Make sure you're drinking extra water, taking extra electrolytes,
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and you may need to add more fiber or like more broccoli fiber,
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or you may have to add more other types of laxatives like Dulcolax or something.
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You may have to do that in order to make this work for you. The food quality still matters, guys.
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It really does still matter. When you are losing weight, you need to keep eating
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low-inflammatory foods, things that are like cruciferous vegetables.
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Things that support your hormones, like certain kinds of healthy proteins.
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You want to keep the inflammation down as much as possible, and you want to
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keep the insulin down, which insulin is inflammatory.
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Try to keep the inflammation-increasing foods. If you want, listen to the last
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podcast of last week, because
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What we talked about was how to
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make sure that you don't eat anything that you're sensitive to with food.
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Then don't forget to recover post-nutrition recovery after your workouts.
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Don't forget to have vegetables and hydrate and have electrolytes after your
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workouts, not just protein. That's important too.
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And leucine is a great one too. Leucine is another supplement you can take to
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help after you work out to help you burn fat.
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A woman often between 30 and 65, we're just so busy.
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We're juggling so much. Our stress levels are so high. But we've got to remember to meal prep.
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And everybody out there, if you're trying to lose weight, you need a meal prep.
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You can't just daily say, I'm just going to go to the fridge and find whatever I want.
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If you're on these different types of trisepatides and semi-glutides,
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you're going to want to have your meals prepped so that your macro loads.
24:30
This is a process, guys. Don't expect this just to magically make you thin.
24:35
It's going to help with the process and speed it up, but it's not a magic bullet.
24:40
Strength training is non-negotiable. It's going to help you keep your muscle
24:43
growth. It's going to boost your metabolism.
24:45
It's going to make you look good. And I think looking good is just as important
24:49
as feeling good, as being healthy. Your appearance matters.
24:52
Your body shape will change as you lift weights. Your bone density, guys.
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If you're in your 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, you need strong bones.
24:59
Especially for women who have gone through menopause, lifting weights really helps with that.
25:04
Strength training also helps with your hormones. It helps balance out some of your hormones.
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Now, a lot of people are going to be on hormones. We're going to have a podcast
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on that about different types of hormones to go on.
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But nonetheless, it's going to help balance out your hormones naturally.
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I would recommend everyone out there is training a minimum of three to four
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days a week. Now, some people like focus training.
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Some people like to do full bodies every single day. It depends on what your
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goals are. Some people like to do CrossFit.
25:30
Some people like to do deadlifts and heavy lifting. And some people like to
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just go in and work a couple body parts.
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I like to do push one day, pull one day, legs another day, and abs every day. And I do a six-day split.
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For some people, that's too much. For some people, three days is enough.
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It depends on what you're looking for. Now, if you like to do CrossFit,
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try to do CrossFit maybe once every day.
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CrossFit is usually 20 to 30 minutes. Or people are playing pickleball.
25:55
Well, pickleball is great for your cardio, but what are you going to do for your muscle mass?
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Make sure you have a nice, balanced approach. And here's the thing. Maybe you're...
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A couch potato. Maybe you never exercise, you're completely lethargic,
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you feel tired all the time and you're not working out.
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Let's say you're 100 or 200 pounds overweight. Maybe start with just walking.
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Walking and some light weights.
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You can just carry water bottles around the house too and do bicep curls and tricep curls.
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Start slow. What will happen is you'll see a quick improvement.
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Just dedicate and be consistent. That's the big thing. If you can dedicate and
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be consistent, the weight's going to start to come off.
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Maybe the first day you can only walk a block and the the second day you walk
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two blocks, and every day you add a block.
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I don't know, but you're going to feel so much better when you start to move
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your body. I am shocked at how little people move.
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Something only like 15% are consistent at working out every single week. Why is that?
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If you need an accountability partner, go hire yourself a trainer and work out
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two or three days a week with them.
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Do something so you can consistently work out because the bigger you get,
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worse your sexual health is, the worse your physical health is,
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the quality of your life goes down. You can't think straight.
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Don't you want to keep your mind as sharp as possible for as long as possible?
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I think that's important with quality of life.
27:09
Eating a bunch of carbs, processed foods, and sugars is going to take it down the wrong path.
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So remember that as you're losing weight, let's re-transform our whole body.
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Think about the growth in the human population if everybody can get their minds
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back and focused. This will help the overall everything in this country.
27:25
Then don't forget some HIIT training. HIIT training is where you're moving quickly
27:28
through different strength training exercises.
27:31
It's great for conditioning, but your recovery time is shortened.
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So like some days I do HIIT training where I just go from muscle group to muscle
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group to muscle group, and I'll train multiple muscle groups at the same time.
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This is really good for your overall cardiovascular.
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I would recommend at least one day a week doing HIIT training,
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maybe two. If you can do high intensity training, it's a really good thing for your body as well.
27:53
Mobility is the new rage. Everyone is talking about, let's make sure we have no mobility.
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And I think a lot of it is people in our age group, guys, are having hip replacements
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and knee replacements and all kinds of things replaced.
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I think a lot of it could be avoided with extensive stretching.
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Now, there are places that have popped up that are stretch labs where you go
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and they just stretch the heck out of you for an hour. The problem is we need
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to be stretching every day.
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It's not just a one day a week thing. You need to stretch every day.
28:19
People are doing yoga more. It's not just for women anymore.
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Men are doing it too. Then there's stretch classes that are popping up everywhere.
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There's stretch groups.
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There's mobility videos that you can follow in order to keep your mobility.
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I think the more movement you can do...
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On a daily basis, the happier you will be.
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Now, if you have a partner, I would recommend that you try to do some things
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with your partner because it's time away from your relationships.
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It's time away from your kids.
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If you have kids, try to have your kids involved in your health. Here's the thing too.
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If you get your kids involved at a young age, they're going to be more accepting of exercise.
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They're going to be more productive with exercise. They're going to want to
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do exercise more often for the rest of their lives. That's what we want.
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We want healthy children that grow into healthy adults anyway.
29:04
But these medications can also interact.
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Remember, this is going to help with stress reduction, your mobility will,
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this is going to help with your nervous system, etc.
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But these medications, you have to realize, can interact with other medications.
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You have to go through your doctor on this. You really need to.
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Because when your appetite is suppressed and you're losing weight,
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you may need your other medications adjusted as well.
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You don't want to be lethargic because you're losing so much weight that you
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don't have enough energy to function. Now, the other thing is they recommend not to skip meals.
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Now, they recommend at least two and then up to three meals a day.
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You could do two meals and a snack or three meals because you're still going
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to want to eat because you're still going to get hungry.
29:42
But don't overtrain with this. Try not to overtrain because your bone health
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and hormone health is also important.
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I think women, a lot of times, we forget that resistance training builds bones
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and it keeps you upright. It gives you a better posture.
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It helps you walk better with all the broken hips and all the broken knees and
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all the broken shoulders and everything else that starts to break,
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arms and things like that as we get older.
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Weightlifting will eliminate a lot of these problems, guys. Just realize that.
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This medication is just a window of an opportunity for a little bit. Here's the thing.
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It's not going to be on this medication forever, and you shouldn't be.
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You go up in dose, and then you actually come down in dose, and then you go
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into a maintenance dose, and then you go off it eventually.
30:20
Hopefully, you can maintain. Hopefully, you've built up your weight training,
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you've got a new diet plan, how to portion control better, and you're able to
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move forward in life without gaining the weight back. That's the goal.
30:32
That's the goal. Because this is a lifestyle change. It's not just a quick fix,
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guys. A lot of people, I think, still think it is a quick fix. Here's the other thing I
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on this medication, you're going to hit plateaus. I know a lot of people that
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I've talked to that are on this.
30:44
They plateau out and then they have to increase the meds. They have to move more.
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They have to, you know, figure out maybe they should change their food up,
30:52
decrease the carbs or something.
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You're going to have plateaus in this just like in any weight loss program.
30:56
And then there's the emotional component of it that people don't talk about with weight loss.
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Now, I'm convinced, and this may just me, that as you lose weight,
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like your tissues have memory.
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I've lost weight sometimes where I've gotten emotional and I don't know why I'm getting emotional.
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Maybe I dropped like five pounds in a week and I got really emotional.
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I'm like, wow, I wonder what was going on when I was gaining the weight.
31:16
Was there an emotional hormone that was present when that fat was stored?
31:20
Was I sad at that time frame when I was gaining that weight?
31:23
You may have an emotional change. And as you lose weight, some people don't realize how they look.
31:29
And some people see themselves as super skinny forever. And some people see
31:33
themselves as super fat. When they lose the weight, they still have that emotional
31:36
mental concept that they have to get through. You may need some therapy on this.
31:40
You may need some psychological support or some coaching because you're going
31:43
to need to change your wardrobe.
31:45
You're going to need to change your self-image, your identity,
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how you feel about yourself. It can help with your self-respect, too.
31:52
There's a lot of good things that happen when you're on these medications.
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Just remember that. A lot of good things happen.
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Then there's the natural ways. Now, you know how big I am.
32:03
About natural health and natural healing. There's natural ways to increase your GLP-1s.
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In fact, there's been some different supplements that I've seen come out that
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have, this is a GLP-1 support or GLP-1 mimicking.
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There's supplements that can help with that. Like berberine,
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for instance. Berberine decreases your insulin.
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It's going to decrease your blood sugars to trigger insulin.
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Berberine is one of those good ones that you take berberine,
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it kind of acts like a smaller version of GLP-1.
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Metformin has been one that a lot of diabetics have stayed on because it's very similar.
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There's different things that will help decrease your insulin sensitivity,
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that will help decrease the insulin flow into your bloodstream. Just realize that.
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If you're trying to mimic like the way GLP-1 is, you need a high-fiber diet, okay?
32:45
That's going to help slow food emptying anyway. Broccoli and cauliflower,
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that's going to help. You're going to leverage your protein.
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The higher the protein, the more satiated you are, and the more muscle you'll
32:54
grow. So that's going to help as well. It's going to naturally mimic appetite control.
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Then focus on foods that are low on the glycemic index, if you've got those,
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that are more nutrient-dense.
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The more nutrient-dense they are, the more likely it's going to decrease your
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blood sugar. Now, some people even juice.
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Juicing is also good for this because it's very nutrient-dense if you're juicing
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a lot of vegetables. Then supplements.
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Here's some of the supplements that people are taking that are similar.
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If you're going to go all natural, this is a great way.
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You can take psyllium, any type of fiber supplement. Green tea.
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So it has EGCG, which is a metabolism booster. Most people know that I drink
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a lot of green tea about the EGCG.
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It is just a big metabolic booster.
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You can drink a couple cups of green tea, and this will help as well.
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Now, if you are on GLP-1 or on any of these, you can also do these natural things
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to help support your body.
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So you could drink green tea even though you're on it. And then don't forget
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your gut health and your microbiome.
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I can't say enough about your gut health and your microbiome because it is linked to weight loss.
33:54
They have taken people and they've done studies on
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this and they take somebody that's heavily overweight and
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somebody that's very thin and they feed them the same calorie diet
34:03
and they do a reduced calorie diet first and what happens is
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the person that's very thin loses weight and the person that's overweight doesn't
34:09
lose very much weight then they give them different like an increased calorie
34:13
diet and what tends to happen is the person that's thin doesn't gain weight
34:17
and may even lose weight depending on what they give them but the heavy person
34:21
gains a lot of weight from the increased calorie diet.
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And what they found is it's related to your microbiome and the bacteria that's in your stomach.
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So there's a lot of evidence leading to that. We beat the heck out of our guts
34:32
by, I mean, there's chemicals in dishwashing soap, I learned,
34:36
that can mess with your gut biome.
34:38
So the ethoxylates, or what's in dishwasher detergent, can damage your gut's
34:43
natural protective lining of your gut, which is a problem if you're trying to
34:47
lose weight because that messes with your gut biome as well.
34:49
Realize there's a lot of things out there that we have and chemicals,
34:53
even some of the chemicals that we clean with.
34:55
We put parabens on our skin.
34:58
There's a lot of things we do to ourselves and don't even realize it because
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it's just so normalized now.
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Work on your gut biome if you can. Get some good probiotics.
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I personally like to make my own yogurt.
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There's different types of yogurt that you can make. It takes about two days
35:14
to make it. There's a bacteria called Ruterin.
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And it is key to metabolic function.
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And it's kind of one of those great probiotics that people have.
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And they're linking that right now to people that are thin and they have a lot
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of it versus people that are overweight. They don't have as much of it.
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Ruterine is great. It also helps with production of vitamin B12.
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It's vitamin B12 dependent. You need to make sure you have vitamin B12 when you're taking it.
35:41
When you take some of these probiotics and make your own yogurt and things,
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you can make your own Ruterine yogurt. The reason why we make our own yogurt
35:48
is because a lot of the yogurts out there on the market, they don't have very much probiotic in them.
35:54
They're not fermented for as long as some of these others.
35:57
When that happens, the L-ruderai that we get in yogurt, it's going to be decreased.
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If you even get L-ruderai at all, it's going to help you with fermenting carbohydrates
36:07
too into other products.
36:08
I probably will have a bacteria podcast if we can in the future.
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But I think that L-Ruteri is probably one thing that everybody should be taking,
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even if they're not making their own yogurts.
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If you're trying to lose weight, look into it. Look into L-Ruteri.
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Just add it to your list of possible things that you need to be taking.
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Again, so we've got fixing our gut health, probiotics, green tea.
36:29
Maybe think of yourself, oh my gosh, there's a lot to think of.
36:31
There's always been a lot to think of when it comes to your health.
36:34
You can either help yourself now and get in shape now, or you're going to pay for it later.
36:38
You're going to pay for it by bad health and being dependent on other people.
36:41
And I don't think most people want to be there.
36:43
There's also adaptogens, okay? This is going to balance your hormones.
36:47
So things like ashwagandha and rhodiola, they decrease your stress a lot and
36:51
they're actually healthy for you.
36:53
They help you overall with your hormone balance. And then don't forget collagen.
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Here's the thing. If you're taking, collagen's going to help your skin contract.
37:01
If you're losing a lot of weight and you take collagen, your skin health is going to be better.
37:06
Instead of adding a bunch of whey protein, maybe look at adding some collagen
37:09
proteins into your protein powders. if you're doing protein powder at all,
37:13
or take collagen on the side.
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It's going to help your muscles as well as recover your skin health.
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It's very important if you're female. If you're female, I would add collagen in for sure.
37:22
And think about doing, if you're not on the supplement, if you're not on the
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medications, think about doing intermittent fasting.
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Intermittent fasting is helping a lot of people still lose weight.
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You can do a 16-8 where you're fasting for 16 hours. Now, honestly,
37:35
a 16-8 to me would, I don't know if that's much of a fast, or you can do an
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18-6 where you're only eating for 6 hours out of every 24 hours. You're fasting for 18.
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24 is where I see most people doing better, where you're eating for 4 hours
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a day and you're fasting for 20.
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I don't know. Honestly, if you're eating for more than 8 hours a day, how do you eat that much?
37:55
People that do a 16-8, no one should be eating for more than 8 hours a day,
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honestly. Personally, I'm like, I look at that.
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I'm like, how are you eating for more than eight hours a day?
38:04
But anyway, and then there's alternate day fasting where you eat one day,
38:08
you fast the next. You eat one day, you fast the next.
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And that's where you're going to probably want to get to if you're doing intermittent
38:14
fasting. And you're going to vary it because, again, your body will adapt.
38:17
When your body adapts, you're going to have to change up your fasting routine.
38:20
And there's prolonged fasting where you do two to 40 days or longer.
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That's for people. A lot of times if you're over five days, you'd probably be
38:28
medically supervised. Some people say if you're over three days,
38:31
you should be medically supervised. It's going to depend on your medical condition.
38:34
Just remember, all those types of things are going to be important.
38:37
If you're on a lot of medication, you need to talk to your doctor before you
38:41
do any extended fasting, because a lot of medications can be impacted by fasting.
38:45
If you're on high blood pressure, if you're on statins, those type of things, talk to your doctor.
38:49
Talk to your doctor anyway, if you're on any pharmaceuticals before you fast.
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But fasting definitely reduces your insulin levels, and that's a similar thing
38:55
that happens with the GLP-1s, etc. And it's going to increase fat mobilization.
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So what's going to happen when you fast? Your body's going to start going after your fat.
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That's the first thing it goes after. It doesn't go after muscle first.
39:06
When you're fasting, now this is not reduced calorie. When you're fasting,
39:10
like no food at all, your body's going to go for your fat first.
39:13
That's what it does because it's the easiest to mobilize.
39:15
Now it will, over a long term, go after your muscle too, but that's if it can
39:20
get to your fat. So your body does like to go for its fat first.
39:23
When on medication, you really need a doctor's oversight. I can't say that enough.
39:26
The calorie deficit can impact your amount of prescription medications you need to be on.
39:32
And as you lose weight, you're going to have to have those adjusted anyway.
39:35
And you may need to have...
39:37
Plastic surgery. It's a possibility. It's a possibility in any of these weight
39:41
loss. If you've had a lot of weight to lose, if you've had over 50 pounds of
39:44
weight to lose, you may need plastic surgery, period. If you want to get your skin back to,
39:49
a normal level. Just remember that might need to be in your budget as well as you're losing weight.
39:53
There's lots of different ways to lose weight. I would say if you're going to
39:57
be doing the natural weight, you're going to be focused on decreasing your insulin,
40:01
decreasing your inflammation.
40:03
Increasing muscle mass through exercise and lifting weights,
40:06
and decreasing your stress and sleeping more.
40:09
That's a natural way to help as well. And here's the thing, even if you're on
40:12
JLP-1s, you need to do that anyway.
40:14
The weight loss medications are powerful, but they're not a standalone solution.
40:17
There's benefits to losing weight just because you're going to have a better metabolic health.
40:22
Your hormones will be balanced and your sex health will be better.
40:24
And sex is important, guys. It truly is. Your energy levels will be better.
40:28
Don't forget that all of these things and your mental capacity could be better
40:32
too. Think about that. You lose some weight, your mental capacity could improve.
40:36
Fasting helps with that as well as do some of these medications.
40:39
But you're going to still have to do strength training and you're going to have
40:42
to make sure you have enough recovery time as you're doing this.
40:45
Because you may get inflamed sometimes from these medications.
40:48
They're supposed to decrease inflammation, but it doesn't for everyone.
40:50
Again, you could have liver issues. You could have kidney issues.
40:53
You could have all types of pancreas issues.
40:55
You could have thyroid cancer from this. Just keep an eye on your blood work.
40:59
If you're doing these types of medications, you need to have your blood work run consistently.
41:02
If your doctor's not running your blood work consistently, then you need to
41:06
probably find a different doctor, just to say the truth.
41:09
Because blood work's important to run whenever you're on any of these types
41:13
of medications. Then don't forget to ignore your side effects.
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When you have side effects, you have to go to your doctor and tell them.
41:18
They can't read your mind.
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And I think a lot of people think, well, my doctor would have told me about
41:23
this. No, if you have any side effects that's not normal, tell them.
41:26
Because doctors can't read your mind. They don't know what you're going through
41:29
on a daily basis. You have to keep them informed.
41:31
And then, again, there's alternative approaches, just working with your food,
41:34
your strength, and fasting. But if you have not been able to lose weight because
41:38
you haven't had the willpower or the discipline.
41:41
To do so in the past, these might be a good way to get you kick-started.
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So I encourage everybody, if you're going to do these types of medications,
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to go talk to your medical provider.
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I encourage you to get your lab work done. And then subscribe to this podcast.
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And this will help other people too. If you're going to do this,
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maybe do it with a friend. And you can do your weight loss journey together.
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I hope this helped today. I really do. I hope that you can gather from this that you can do this.
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Everyone can do this. It's going to be a lot cheaper for people to do this very, very soon.
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Taking the pill or the shot, depending on what type of medication you get,
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is not the only solution.
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You're going to have to still work out. You're still going to have to do exercises.
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You're still going to have to walk.
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And the more you work out and the more you walk, etc., the happier you're going
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to be anyway. So this is Diva Mia.
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Let me know in the comments if I can do anything to help you.
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Let me know if you need support in any way.
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Also, let us kind of know what your journey has been like. It's kind of nice
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to know what happens to other people along the way and along their journey. Have a wonderful week.
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This is Diva Mia signing off. Take care. Ciao, ciao.
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