Latest / The Body Pod / RE-RUN - Ozempic Weight Loss Debate with Obesity Specialist Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen – Side Effects, Risks & Benefits
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to the Body Pod. Today we are rerunning one
- 0:03Speaker 1: of our favorite and most popular episodes from twenty twenty four,
- 0:08Speaker 1: which is with doctor Rossio Salas Whalen on all Things
- 0:12Speaker 1: GLP ones and obesity treatment. Now, while this episode is
- 0:17Speaker 1: more than a year old and lots of research has
- 0:20Speaker 1: come out since this airing, we will be having doctor
- 0:24Speaker 1: Whyalan on in a upcoming course of mine this fall.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Enjoy this rerun with doctor Whalin.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Hi everyone, my name is Haley and this is Lara,
- 0:34Speaker 2: and welcome.
- 0:35Speaker 3: To the Body Pod. Welcome everyone to the Body Pod.
- 0:44Speaker 3: I am so honored to have our special guest today,
- 0:48Speaker 3: doctor Rossio Salas Whalen, who is a triple board certified
- 0:54Speaker 3: end yourcinologist and obesity specialist practicing in New York City.
- 0:58Speaker 3: So welcome dot Org your Waylan.
- 1:01Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I'm so happy and excited to
- 1:03Speaker 4: be here with both of you.
- 1:06Speaker 3: We are so excited. And U you're on vacation. Are
- 1:08Speaker 3: you on vacation?
- 1:09Speaker 1: Are you?
- 1:10Speaker 5: I'm with my kids.
- 1:12Speaker 6: She's just showed us the view and Haley and I
- 1:15Speaker 6: are so envious that we're not there doing it.
- 1:19Speaker 2: I know, I'm so mad.
- 1:22Speaker 3: I'm going to come see you in New York though,
- 1:23Speaker 3: I'm going to take you to lunch when i'm there next.
- 1:25Speaker 7: I was just there.
- 1:26Speaker 5: Please please please let me know when you're in the city.
- 1:29Speaker 7: Yes, let's go. Yeah time Hill.
- 1:32Speaker 3: Oh I just was there a week ago. Yeah, a
- 1:35Speaker 3: week and a half ago. So anyways, next time I'm there,
- 1:38Speaker 3: I'm going to hit you up. But anyhow, welcome, welcome, welcome.
- 1:41Speaker 3: We have so many questions to cover, so today everyone,
- 1:47Speaker 3: we are talking about all things sema, glue, tide, and
- 1:52Speaker 3: the obesity epidemic that we are facing. So doctor Whylan
- 1:57Speaker 3: is one of the top, if not I would say
- 2:00Speaker 3: the top in her field, definitely for me, that owns
- 2:05Speaker 3: a practice in New York City. So I'm just curious.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Can you just give us a little background about you know,
- 2:14Speaker 3: how long you've been practicing, what made you get into
- 2:17Speaker 3: this specific area. I'm so curious about that.
- 2:20Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 2:21Speaker 4: So I've been practicing since twenty ten when I finished
- 2:25Speaker 4: my specialty. And you know, fourteen years ago, we didn't
- 2:32Speaker 4: treat obesity, or we didn't talk about obesity as we
- 2:35Speaker 4: talk about it now. In fact, we didn't have a
- 2:37Speaker 4: specialty back then in obesity, right, it was into chronology
- 2:41Speaker 4: and that's the reason that I went into chronology was
- 2:44Speaker 4: to work on metabolism. I was always interested in type
- 2:49Speaker 4: two diabetes and its relationship with weight, right, and how
- 2:53Speaker 4: if you control one, you would control the other one.
- 2:58Speaker 5: And then obesity.
- 3:00Speaker 4: Then we started having medications for weight loss, and I
- 3:04Speaker 4: think that opened a huge Pandora box, right that for
- 3:09Speaker 4: the first time we could offer patients something that actually worked.
- 3:16Speaker 4: And then it just my path became more obesity and
- 3:20Speaker 4: weight loss and not so much type two diabetes.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Oh well, I want to start with this staggering statistic
- 3:30Speaker 3: that I heard you say that by the year twenty thirty,
- 3:33Speaker 3: the World Health Organization estimates that fifty percent of the
- 3:37Speaker 3: world population will have obesity.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Yes, I mean that is like so scarce, so terrified.
- 3:45Speaker 5: It is it is that we have.
- 3:48Speaker 4: And including children, right, I mean I think that's that's
- 3:53Speaker 4: the biggest difference in future statistics, is that it includes children,
- 4:01Speaker 4: and those children will become adults with obesity.
- 4:03Speaker 5: Right.
- 4:04Speaker 4: So we're not talking in the next seven years, We're
- 4:06Speaker 4: talking in the next decades.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Right, But do you do you think that America is like,
- 4:15Speaker 3: is America the worst?
- 4:17Speaker 5: America is not the worst.
- 4:19Speaker 4: The worst is the middle East right now, in certain
- 4:24Speaker 4: countries in Latin America, Mexico unfortunately, it is also very top.
- 4:28Speaker 4: But definitely the United States is i believe is number
- 4:31Speaker 4: three or number fourth in regards of world obesity, which
- 4:34Speaker 4: is pretty hard.
- 4:37Speaker 6: And obesity is do you find it growing because of
- 4:44Speaker 6: food quality or habit And obesity is a disease, so
- 4:50Speaker 6: some people technically are born with it also, correct.
- 4:54Speaker 4: Yes, so what we There's a lot of recent published
- 4:58Speaker 4: papers showing that prenatal mother's weight impacts the weight of
- 5:06Speaker 4: the offspring in the future. Right, so even your weight
- 5:10Speaker 4: preconception is going to impact the future of your future children.
- 5:17Speaker 4: So we're going even back then, right. And then we
- 5:21Speaker 4: live in a very industrialized world. We live that we
- 5:24Speaker 4: call obesogenic environments. Right, Everything in our life, from food industry,
- 5:30Speaker 4: the chemicals working from home promote obesity, right or make
- 5:35Speaker 4: it difficult.
- 5:36Speaker 5: For people to lose weight.
- 5:39Speaker 4: So if you think about it, I feel like we're
- 5:41Speaker 4: set for failure.
- 5:42Speaker 6: Right.
- 5:43Speaker 5: It's a very difficult.
- 5:45Speaker 4: Fight to win against everything else that is promoting waking
- 5:50Speaker 4: and obesity becoming part of our genes.
- 5:54Speaker 3: Literally, Ah, this is okay, And I think that a
- 5:58Speaker 3: lot of it has to do with I mean, you're
- 6:00Speaker 3: in New York City. I lived in New York City
- 6:02Speaker 3: for a hot minute. But when people can feed their
- 6:06Speaker 3: family at Taco Bell for twenty five dollars, I mean,
- 6:10Speaker 3: I know, New York City has made like the fruit
- 6:12Speaker 3: stands outside of the actual you know, grocery stores, you
- 6:17Speaker 3: can get decent, you know, really good pricing on that.
- 6:20Speaker 3: But I mean some places in the southeast, I mean
- 6:24Speaker 3: there's there's just a lot like it's easier to feed
- 6:28Speaker 3: your family at McDonald's.
- 6:30Speaker 2: I mean that's a problem.
- 6:31Speaker 4: And you know, I mean New York City is changing.
- 6:33Speaker 4: I remember when I moved to New York City.
- 6:37Speaker 5: You could see you didn't see so much of the city.
- 6:40Speaker 5: It wasn't it wasn't there.
- 6:42Speaker 4: But now there are Taco Bells next to the subway station.
- 6:48Speaker 4: There's Dunkin Donuts, there's Chick Filey, there's McDonald's, there's Krispy Kreme,
- 6:54Speaker 4: and they become so popular that even there's lines outside
- 6:58Speaker 4: those restaurants. Right, So, and New York City is different
- 7:02Speaker 4: now you can see how much more in regards to
- 7:06Speaker 4: a bcity has changed New York City. And we're a
- 7:10Speaker 4: city that we walk and we take the stairs and
- 7:12Speaker 4: we take the subway.
- 7:13Speaker 5: But even with that, the.
- 7:15Speaker 4: Food industry it's really really making it very difficult.
- 7:20Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, we're having to overcome the food industry, but yeah,
- 7:24Speaker 6: convenience and.
- 7:25Speaker 7: The quality of food and rice just yeah, I'm price huge.
- 7:32Speaker 4: You can ask a family, a single mother that is
- 7:36Speaker 4: working two jobs and has two three kids to buy
- 7:40Speaker 4: organic and buy everything clean, and I mean it's expensive.
- 7:48Speaker 3: So this is really interesting because I run like fat
- 7:52Speaker 3: loss courses throughout the year and it really.
- 7:56Speaker 2: Is just an eduction. It's an education course.
- 7:59Speaker 3: I mean we walk every one through it, but it's
- 8:01Speaker 3: just like giving all like taking out all the bs
- 8:04Speaker 3: of you know, everyone that's like do this, do this,
- 8:07Speaker 3: eat this, don't eat this, and just really being like,
- 8:09Speaker 3: this is what the evidence says, you know, in this area.
- 8:13Speaker 2: And we cover that.
- 8:14Speaker 3: But I can't tell you how many women come in
- 8:17Speaker 3: and they're like, I'm really not eating that bad and
- 8:20Speaker 3: I just keep put like packing on the weight.
- 8:23Speaker 2: And it's so hard.
- 8:24Speaker 3: Because the food industry, as you said, I mean it's like.
- 8:30Speaker 2: It's made to taste good.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Yeah, and all of these processed foods like where we
- 8:34Speaker 3: actually don't get full on them, and the brain doesn't
- 8:37Speaker 3: get the message to stop eating and all of that.
- 8:40Speaker 3: I mean, it's just fascinating because women come to me
- 8:43Speaker 3: all the time. They're like, I'm just like I'm done,
- 8:46Speaker 3: I'm done, Like I really, I'm exercising, I'm doing this.
- 8:49Speaker 3: And that's what's hard, is you just a lot of
- 8:53Speaker 3: it is we don't know the calorie content in our
- 8:56Speaker 3: foods as well, and we go to I mean, if
- 8:59Speaker 3: you're eating these restaurants or fast food places that I
- 9:03Speaker 3: call America the Land of Convenience, that are just anywhere
- 9:07Speaker 3: you go, it's really hard to be like, well, you know,
- 9:11Speaker 3: I'm really not eating that much, but what consists in
- 9:14Speaker 3: those calories? And and you know and yes, well and
- 9:20Speaker 3: and the I think the stigma that obesity is strictly like, well,
- 9:25Speaker 3: you just need to have more will power. I mean, like, no,
- 9:30Speaker 3: that's not that's not it.
- 9:32Speaker 5: I see that.
- 9:33Speaker 4: I'm talking about the food industry. Like I have a
- 9:36Speaker 4: lot of patients that are from different countries that they
- 9:39Speaker 4: coming from here, They're coming from Asia, they come from
- 9:42Speaker 4: and they all have the same story. They all gained
- 9:45Speaker 4: twenty thirty pounds when they move to America, do they not?
- 9:49Speaker 2: Yes?
- 9:50Speaker 4: Not surprising every single patient that I see, like in
- 9:54Speaker 4: that came immigrated here is the same story they gained
- 9:57Speaker 4: twenty thirty forty pounds of way right, And and yes,
- 10:02Speaker 4: I mean we know now that obesity is a chronic,
- 10:05Speaker 4: multifactorial disease, right, So it's not a problem of willpower.
- 10:11Speaker 4: I do feel I do think that the food industry
- 10:14Speaker 4: one day will become accountable for producing the statistics that
- 10:19Speaker 4: we have in obesity worldwide, right like this, like the
- 10:23Speaker 4: tobacco industry at one point. I feel like it's going
- 10:25Speaker 4: to be it's going to be the same. Hopefully one
- 10:27Speaker 4: day it will be. Because we talk about many solutions,
- 10:31Speaker 4: right and including way thot medications, but really the main
- 10:34Speaker 4: solution is changing.
- 10:36Speaker 5: What we eat.
- 10:37Speaker 4: Right, That's a huge part, and we have we have
- 10:41Speaker 4: little control, but but we haven't lost of control. I
- 10:44Speaker 4: always tell education is going to be our biggest weapon
- 10:49Speaker 4: against the food industry, right because the less we know,
- 10:53Speaker 4: the more they can control what we eat. The more
- 10:57Speaker 4: we know, the more we can sum how control what
- 11:01Speaker 4: food choices we make. So we still have some control
- 11:04Speaker 4: on it.
- 11:06Speaker 6: So if I'm a client of yours, and for example,
- 11:10Speaker 6: what you just said, if I'm a patient, I come
- 11:14Speaker 6: to you I'm thirty sixty pounds overweight?
- 11:20Speaker 7: How do you address And I know everyone is different,
- 11:24Speaker 7: but what.
- 11:25Speaker 6: Are the things before you know ozembic and all of
- 11:30Speaker 6: the medications in that family you know, or before you
- 11:33Speaker 6: treat them with that? What do you do to address
- 11:37Speaker 6: the situation besides what you just said educating educating them?
- 11:42Speaker 4: So first I take a very thorough family history, right,
- 11:47Speaker 4: I ask all my patients, all of my patients the
- 11:50Speaker 4: same question, at what age did you were you conscious
- 11:56Speaker 4: about your weight? Or at what age you being careful
- 12:01Speaker 4: of what you ate?
- 12:02Speaker 5: Right?
- 12:03Speaker 4: At what age did you stop being unconscious about how
- 12:07Speaker 4: you look or your weight? And the majority have the
- 12:09Speaker 4: same nine years old? Eight years old?
- 12:12Speaker 7: So young, that's heartbreaking.
- 12:14Speaker 5: Tell me.
- 12:15Speaker 4: I was put on my first diet at nine, I
- 12:17Speaker 4: had my first personal trainer at twelve. I was sent
- 12:20Speaker 4: to fat camps since twelve. So I just want to
- 12:25Speaker 4: see how far back in the patient's history was this
- 12:30Speaker 4: something of an issue, right, because then that tells me
- 12:35Speaker 4: how complex the disease is, how complex the obesity is,
- 12:39Speaker 4: and how little or not is lifestyle involved in this
- 12:45Speaker 4: patient's life.
- 12:46Speaker 5: Right.
- 12:48Speaker 4: So it's doing that, doing a family tree, right, I
- 12:52Speaker 4: want to know what's the weight history of the mom,
- 12:54Speaker 4: the dad, the siblings, even the grandparents, the uncles, just
- 12:58Speaker 4: to see where is.
- 12:59Speaker 5: This coming from.
- 13:00Speaker 4: And I would say in seventy eighty percent of my patients,
- 13:04Speaker 4: there's always some family inheritance of obesity.
- 13:07Speaker 6: So it's like seventy to eighty percent is kind of
- 13:10Speaker 6: a genetic.
- 13:11Speaker 4: Kind there is either coming from the father or the
- 13:14Speaker 4: mother's side, and there's impacting their weight, or that there's
- 13:17Speaker 4: a history of struggling of weight in one side of
- 13:20Speaker 4: the family or sometimes in both families.
- 13:22Speaker 6: Right.
- 13:23Speaker 4: Then definitely a medication list. I mean there's some medications
- 13:26Speaker 4: that can promote waking until the presence blood pressure medications,
- 13:30Speaker 4: some anti diabetic medications like insulin can promote waking too.
- 13:36Speaker 4: And then going into their lifestyle, their work, their sleep patterns, right, exercise,
- 13:42Speaker 4: what are there exercising? What normally they eat? I tell them,
- 13:46Speaker 4: tell me what you ate for breakfast, yesterday, lunch and dinner.
- 13:49Speaker 4: I just want to get a sense of really deep,
- 13:52Speaker 4: deep dive, dive deep into the patient's life and where
- 13:58Speaker 4: can there be twigs if any? But for the majority
- 14:02Speaker 4: of patients, it's something very humbling that I learned through
- 14:06Speaker 4: practicing obesity medicine is that the majority of patients with
- 14:10Speaker 4: obesity or struggling with weight, they're doing everything they can right,
- 14:15Speaker 4: They're exercising, they're eating healthy, they've tried hundreds of diets.
- 14:21Speaker 7: I mean, it's they've been on a diet since they're nine.
- 14:24Speaker 4: It's really sad. And it's when you hear somebody's even
- 14:33Speaker 4: from childhood weight and they're eating and their food in
- 14:37Speaker 4: front of them. It's twenty for seven, a full time job, right,
- 14:42Speaker 4: it's everything that is in front of them. How is
- 14:44Speaker 4: this going to impact my weight? Am I going to
- 14:47Speaker 4: feel guilty after I eat it? Am I not going
- 14:49Speaker 4: to feel guilty? Or how can I compensate? And it
- 14:52Speaker 4: becomes a mental health draining right from their weight. So
- 14:58Speaker 4: it's really unfair, and I always try to speak this
- 15:02Speaker 4: very out loud, is that we.
- 15:04Speaker 2: Had it wrong.
- 15:05Speaker 4: Patients are not the couch potato that we're thinking, and
- 15:08Speaker 4: that we have the idea that they're just eating, they
- 15:10Speaker 4: don't care and they're just gaining weight.
- 15:12Speaker 5: It's quite the opposite.
- 15:14Speaker 4: Patients with ob city, No, they have obesity, they want
- 15:17Speaker 4: to lose weight, they're trying to lose weight, but it's
- 15:20Speaker 4: just not happening.
- 15:22Speaker 3: This is I remember I reposted something that you had,
- 15:26Speaker 3: like something on your Instagram months ago that said, imagine
- 15:30Speaker 3: the noise that's constantly going on in their head? What
- 15:34Speaker 3: am I going to eat? What is it going to
- 15:36Speaker 3: do to me? How is it going to impact my weight?
- 15:39Speaker 3: Constant noise, like it's exhausting to think about an.
- 15:44Speaker 5: A every day?
- 15:45Speaker 6: Yeah, consuming which then affects how you show up every day,
- 15:49Speaker 6: your mental.
- 15:50Speaker 4: Health, mental health, your mental space, the mental space that
- 15:54Speaker 4: this occupies in people with ob city, overweight or struggling
- 15:57Speaker 4: with weight, it's a huge part of their of their
- 16:01Speaker 4: mental space that you can that you can think, what
- 16:04Speaker 4: would happen.
- 16:05Speaker 5: If we take that out, right?
- 16:08Speaker 4: What what are the possibilities to occupy that other mental
- 16:12Speaker 4: space that is being occupied by the constant thinking.
- 16:15Speaker 5: Of their weight and food? Mm hmm.
- 16:19Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 16:19Speaker 4: And it's something that well, you don't realize because in medicine,
- 16:23Speaker 4: as doctors, we hear, we learn about the pathology, like
- 16:26Speaker 4: the doctor side or what we can do, but we
- 16:29Speaker 4: never learn about what the patient is going through. Right,
- 16:32Speaker 4: we don't hear those stories that I hear every day
- 16:36Speaker 4: in my clinic. Right, is that that it makes you think,
- 16:39Speaker 4: like Wow, we've been telling patients go eat less, exercise more,
- 16:44Speaker 4: and that's all they've been doing all the time.
- 16:48Speaker 2: Well there's another.
- 16:52Speaker 3: I messaged you a few months ago when I was
- 16:54Speaker 3: doing a podcast with I don't know if you're familiar
- 16:58Speaker 3: with doctor Bill Campbell, but he's an in the fitness
- 17:00Speaker 3: world and he was just doing like the research on
- 17:06Speaker 3: ozepic and semaglue, tide and all that, Like that was
- 17:09Speaker 3: just the purpose of like, here's all of the current
- 17:12Speaker 3: research that we have. And so I reached out to
- 17:16Speaker 3: you because I mean when I put it on, I
- 17:18Speaker 3: was like, holy cow, this is a polarizing topic because
- 17:23Speaker 3: people were like, you know how they're taking it away
- 17:27Speaker 3: from type two diabetes and just freaking out. I was
- 17:29Speaker 3: like I'm the journalist here, like I'm not the one
- 17:33Speaker 3: taking it away. But I remember I reached out and
- 17:36Speaker 3: I was like, what's your like, what's your view on this?
- 17:39Speaker 2: And you you said that.
- 17:42Speaker 3: There's seventy two million people that were obese I mean
- 17:46Speaker 3: a few months ago, versus forty one million people with
- 17:49Speaker 3: type two diabetes. So it comes down to can you
- 17:53Speaker 3: explain that? Because I was just like, this is it
- 17:56Speaker 3: right here?
- 17:57Speaker 4: So this Mady case, this class of drops our impretense
- 18:00Speaker 4: glp ones. They were designed for type two diabetes and
- 18:05Speaker 4: it's a really I like the.
- 18:07Speaker 5: Story of how it was discovered.
- 18:09Speaker 4: It was in nineteen ninety four by an endochronologist and
- 18:12Speaker 4: researcher at the VA Hospital in the Bronx in New York,
- 18:15Speaker 4: doctor John Ng And he was studying the Gila monsters,
- 18:20Speaker 4: which are lizards from the south from the southwest, and
- 18:24Speaker 4: the Gila monster in its prey, they killed its prey
- 18:28Speaker 4: causing puncretitis. So doctor Ang wanted to know what in
- 18:34Speaker 4: the venom of the Gila monster causes puncretitis, what effect
- 18:38Speaker 4: does it happen the pancreas, and that's how he isolated
- 18:42Speaker 4: the first YELP one called accentotide back in nineteen ninety four,
- 18:47Speaker 4: So thanks to him we have this evolution of the
- 18:51Speaker 4: DLP once.
- 18:52Speaker 5: And then in two thousand and five.
- 18:54Speaker 4: Was the first FDA approved GLP one made from eccentotide
- 19:00Speaker 4: what he had isolated from the gillamnster, and it was
- 19:03Speaker 4: named Bayeta, and that was a daily injection before.
- 19:07Speaker 5: Breakfast, thirty minutes before breakfast.
- 19:08Speaker 4: And thirty minutes before dinner, and then after that Bayeta,
- 19:12Speaker 4: came Victosa, which was once a day injection, and then
- 19:15Speaker 4: twenty seventeen ozampek or semaglutide, which is once a week injection.
- 19:21Speaker 4: But when in twenty ten when I started practicing Victosa,
- 19:26Speaker 4: which is leraglutide also for nov northisk was fdata profer
- 19:30Speaker 4: type two diabetes, and I remember started using it in
- 19:32Speaker 4: my patients and they were coming back with better glucose
- 19:35Speaker 4: control and weight loss, which was the first time that
- 19:39Speaker 4: we were seeing that in a medication, because most medications
- 19:42Speaker 4: for diabetes promote waking actually, but this drug only asking
- 19:48Speaker 4: your pancreas if your sugar is elevated, so you actually
- 19:52Speaker 4: have to have diabetes to work as an anti diabetic drug,
- 19:56Speaker 4: meaning they don't cause hypoglycemia on somebody who doesn't have
- 20:01Speaker 4: diabetes like insulin. Right, if you've given to somebody who
- 20:04Speaker 4: doesn't have diabetes, the sugar is gonna drop, but they.
- 20:07Speaker 5: Can they can past, they can die. But in cretains
- 20:10Speaker 5: LP one, your sugar is normal.
- 20:13Speaker 4: It's not going to touch the pancres it's just going
- 20:15Speaker 4: to pass it next to it. But then we get
- 20:18Speaker 4: the benefits of the whales and that's when we started
- 20:21Speaker 4: using it off label, including myself, back in twenty ten
- 20:24Speaker 4: for whals independent of type two diabetes, and then in
- 20:28Speaker 4: twenty twelve it was fdat approof for whals. So these
- 20:32Speaker 4: medications have the f data approval for whales since two
- 20:37Speaker 4: thousand twelve.
- 20:38Speaker 7: So it really isn't just for diabetes.
- 20:40Speaker 4: It's not only for type two diabetes. We have clear
- 20:44Speaker 4: FD eight guidelines for whals independent of diabetes. What they
- 20:48Speaker 4: did the pharmaceuticals they changed the name bictosa to saxenda,
- 20:51Speaker 4: ozampic to Wegobi and now Munjaro to set down same drug,
- 20:56Speaker 4: same molecules, same pharmaceuticals, same dosing, same pen just different
- 21:01Speaker 4: names for different indications.
- 21:04Speaker 2: Oh that's so interesting.
- 21:06Speaker 3: So okay with when people are looking at this, I think,
- 21:10Speaker 3: I mean, I'm in the you know, personal training fitness world,
- 21:14Speaker 3: but when I have clients come to me, they're like, well,
- 21:18Speaker 3: I kind of am interested in this, but you know,
- 21:20Speaker 3: I don't want to have another fan fan of the
- 21:22Speaker 3: nineties where people are really free that there's going to
- 21:26Speaker 3: be all of these you know, side effects that come
- 21:30Speaker 3: out in ten twenty thirty years. Do you think that
- 21:33Speaker 3: there are some or what? What do you think of
- 21:36Speaker 3: the side effects.
- 21:37Speaker 4: So I mean and long term, going back to what
- 21:40Speaker 4: I just mentioned, I mean, we have close to thirty
- 21:43Speaker 4: years of data on this class of drugs.
- 21:45Speaker 5: Right.
- 21:47Speaker 4: The newer versions are newer generations, but with the same
- 21:52Speaker 4: concept back in nineteen ninety four. Right, So we have
- 21:56Speaker 4: enough data on these drugs to know it's safety.
- 22:01Speaker 5: Now.
- 22:02Speaker 4: I say this, and I said it multiple times, and
- 22:06Speaker 4: I said to all my patients, the safety of these
- 22:10Speaker 4: drugs and even the effectiveness the benefits of it will
- 22:14Speaker 4: depend on how much expertise who's giving you this drug
- 22:19Speaker 4: on them half. Right, If I start prescribing medications that
- 22:25Speaker 4: I don't have much experience, just because I'm a doctor,
- 22:28Speaker 4: I can prescribe chemo drugs, I'm going to create more
- 22:30Speaker 4: harm than actual benefits. So those side effects that.
- 22:35Speaker 5: We're seeing now that that were not reported in all
- 22:37Speaker 5: the control studies are being caused by providers.
- 22:42Speaker 4: That don't have experience on this medication, right, that don't
- 22:46Speaker 4: know how to lead the patient's journey with this drug.
- 22:51Speaker 4: Because every patient is different, one may work for one
- 22:54Speaker 4: may not work for the other one. So every treatment
- 22:57Speaker 4: should be very individualized to their lifestyle, to their necessities,
- 23:02Speaker 4: to their way to their other medications that they're taking.
- 23:06Speaker 5: But when you don't do that, then you run.
- 23:08Speaker 4: The risk of creating side effects that were not expected,
- 23:12Speaker 4: that were not seen in the control studies, Patients that
- 23:15Speaker 4: are not being followed properly, right, patients that are not
- 23:19Speaker 4: guided the right way. And then sometimes we have patients
- 23:22Speaker 4: that want to get results too fast and they may
- 23:26Speaker 4: overrun our recommendations.
- 23:28Speaker 5: Then we're going to see other side effects.
- 23:30Speaker 4: Right, So I feel like all those side effects that
- 23:32Speaker 4: we're seeing are really caused by improper use of the medication.
- 23:37Speaker 4: That makes sense, even and this is talking long term
- 23:40Speaker 4: and short term side effects.
- 23:42Speaker 6: Right, And if people that are obese, there are so
- 23:48Speaker 6: many risks and problems that help issues that come from that.
- 23:55Speaker 6: And a lot of people I know that have gone
- 23:58Speaker 6: on the medication and have lost a lot of way,
- 24:02Speaker 6: they actually are so much healthier now and issues health
- 24:06Speaker 6: issues they were having are now they aren't concerned. They
- 24:11Speaker 6: aren't concerned anymore. So it seems that the benefits far
- 24:16Speaker 6: out weigh anything than not taking it right.
- 24:21Speaker 4: Definitely, So we know there's more than sixteen cancers related
- 24:25Speaker 4: to obesity. Even now we're seeing more breast cancer related
- 24:28Speaker 4: to obesity than genetics, right, colon cancer, stomach cancer, thyrol cancer,
- 24:33Speaker 4: pancreatic cancer. We see more of that with obesity than
- 24:36Speaker 4: from the medications that we're hearing that right, These medications
- 24:41Speaker 4: really are going to change the way that we practice
- 24:44Speaker 4: medicine because I feel like in the next two three generations,
- 24:48Speaker 4: we're going to have less chronic diseases, much less type
- 24:52Speaker 4: two diabetes, less different types of cancers related to obesity.
- 24:56Speaker 4: So really we are exchanging one drug for a long
- 25:01Speaker 4: list of other medications or other health problems.
- 25:05Speaker 6: Do you think okays drug class will help the obesity epidemic?
- 25:11Speaker 6: Do you think that it could actually really drop the
- 25:15Speaker 6: numbers and make a change in this world.
- 25:18Speaker 4: I think that prediction of the who that twenty thirty,
- 25:22Speaker 4: I feel like that is going to be less thanks
- 25:26Speaker 4: to our current treatment that we have for obesity.
- 25:32Speaker 2: It's so interesting.
- 25:33Speaker 3: I mean, coming from the fitness world, I know that
- 25:36Speaker 3: I've been on a lot of like in groups where
- 25:39Speaker 3: we're discussing this because it's changing the fitness world.
- 25:44Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 25:45Speaker 3: People are getting more comfortable to come into the gym,
- 25:48Speaker 3: you know, making a lot of changes, and there's of
- 25:51Speaker 3: course pros and cons on both sides of the issue.
- 25:54Speaker 3: But the conside would be trainers that are like, well,
- 25:58Speaker 3: now everyone's just taking it. It's super easy and they're
- 26:01Speaker 3: not actually learning, you know, the proper education and the
- 26:05Speaker 3: psychological component. But I'm going to guess that this is
- 26:09Speaker 3: where you're going to say, well, it comes down to
- 26:10Speaker 3: the provider. If someone at the next to the Walmart is,
- 26:15Speaker 3: you know, prescribing this drug that has no experience, just
- 26:21Speaker 3: for the sake of financial gain, then that's not helping either.
- 26:25Speaker 3: What what's your opinion on that?
- 26:27Speaker 4: Definitely, I think in regards to the fitness world, I
- 26:33Speaker 4: see something happening in my practice and I foresee that
- 26:39Speaker 4: this is what's going to happen, is that people are
- 26:43Speaker 4: going to start exercising for.
- 26:46Speaker 5: Us and not for weight loss. I think that I
- 26:51Speaker 5: feel like that's huge.
- 26:53Speaker 4: And it makes me so happy when I see patients.
- 26:57Speaker 4: I started going to the gym because one thing, I mean,
- 27:01Speaker 4: you're more self confident. Number one, when patients start losing weight,
- 27:04Speaker 4: you're more flexible, you're more movable, you're not short of breath,
- 27:08Speaker 4: you physically can perform better, right, and then patients, it's
- 27:15Speaker 4: very amazing to see the journey of patients they come
- 27:19Speaker 4: with the concept of wanting something external right, to look
- 27:23Speaker 4: certain certain way, to feel a certain way.
- 27:27Speaker 5: And then halfway of the journey, when we.
- 27:31Speaker 4: Because I always talk about muscle protein, it flips. They
- 27:35Speaker 4: start to feel healthy, they start to feel strong, and
- 27:39Speaker 4: it becomes a fitness journey and not a weight loss
- 27:43Speaker 4: journey anymore So, more than ever, I feel people are
- 27:48Speaker 4: start going to embracing exercising for the right reason and
- 27:53Speaker 4: not for the weight loss right because for the weight
- 27:56Speaker 4: loss you always see it as something temporary, as a punishment,
- 28:00Speaker 4: and you're exercising because you feel better, you want to
- 28:03Speaker 4: extend your longevity, you want to feel healthy. Then you
- 28:08Speaker 4: adapt it. It becomes part of your life. So I
- 28:11Speaker 4: think it's a very positive shift that you trainers are
- 28:17Speaker 4: going to see people coming in for the right reasons.
- 28:20Speaker 4: And not that everybody doesn't, but the majority of mentality
- 28:24Speaker 4: is exercise to lose weight, because that's what we we're
- 28:26Speaker 4: teaching before. That's changing, and more than ever, I feel
- 28:30Speaker 4: like the medical community and the personal trainer business we
- 28:34Speaker 4: have to be more in a allions than more because
- 28:40Speaker 4: together we're going to make the patient healthy and fit right.
- 28:45Speaker 4: More than ever, I've never recommended to my patients to
- 28:48Speaker 4: go to the gym or personal trainers as much as
- 28:51Speaker 4: I'm doing every day.
- 28:52Speaker 3: Now, well, I do have to say it's you know,
- 28:57Speaker 3: I have women coming into my courses all the time,
- 28:59Speaker 3: either one on one or in these groups that I
- 29:02Speaker 3: run multiple times a year. And when I'm running the numbers,
- 29:07Speaker 3: like I always like, there's always a couple of obese
- 29:11Speaker 3: people that come into the group, and emotionally, I am like,
- 29:17Speaker 3: I don't want this to be another source of failure
- 29:22Speaker 3: for them, because so this is totally I mean from
- 29:26Speaker 3: my point of view when I've been on these you know, panels,
- 29:29Speaker 3: I'm like, this this only helps us because it's giving
- 29:33Speaker 3: someone that they're then they're like, okay, well i don't
- 29:36Speaker 3: have as much noise in my head. I'm seeing some change,
- 29:40Speaker 3: so now I can take on this education component or
- 29:44Speaker 3: you know, in the behavior change and habit change and
- 29:48Speaker 3: all of those things that are needed when someone starts
- 29:51Speaker 3: to wean off of the drug. Do you recommend I mean,
- 29:55Speaker 3: I know this is still fairly new and this may change.
- 29:58Speaker 3: Do you have like and somebody beyond this for the
- 30:01Speaker 3: rest of their life or is the goal to get
- 30:04Speaker 3: them to a place where you're like Okay, we're going
- 30:06Speaker 3: to wan you off, but the habits, the behaviors, the
- 30:10Speaker 3: education has to be there as well.
- 30:12Speaker 4: So if we go back to what obesity is that
- 30:15Speaker 4: it's a chronic disease, and chronic diseases we don't cure, right,
- 30:20Speaker 4: we control. So the idea with these medications is that
- 30:24Speaker 4: they're designed for long term use. And one I think
- 30:27Speaker 4: it's a I think we should shift it as a
- 30:29Speaker 4: positive thing and that as a negative thing because for
- 30:33Speaker 4: the first time we have something that's going to help
- 30:35Speaker 4: you maintain the weight loss right, because many things can
- 30:39Speaker 4: probably take you there, restrictive diets, but the moment that
- 30:42Speaker 4: you stop or that you're left on your own is
- 30:45Speaker 4: when the weight regained happens. So with these medications, we
- 30:48Speaker 4: can not only take you to your goal, but we
- 30:50Speaker 4: can help you keep you on your goal.
- 30:52Speaker 5: They're safe to be used long term. If we're talking
- 30:55Speaker 5: about safety.
- 30:56Speaker 4: Now, weight loss medicine is very new you and a
- 31:01Speaker 4: lot of things are changing and we're learning as we're doing.
- 31:05Speaker 4: And if I can talk about my personal experience with
- 31:08Speaker 4: my patients, those patients are able to maintain their muscle mass,
- 31:14Speaker 4: those patients that are able to gain muscle mass have
- 31:20Speaker 4: more probability to maintaining the weight loss at the lowest
- 31:24Speaker 4: dose possible or with maybe no medication. Right because whenever
- 31:31Speaker 4: you hear oh losing weight slows down your metabolism. The
- 31:34Speaker 4: reason for that is because you lose muscle with weight loss, right,
- 31:38Speaker 4: with any and this is not exclusive to samagutai, This
- 31:40Speaker 4: is not exclusive to any other drugs that we're talking.
- 31:43Speaker 5: This is just exclusive of dieting patients lose muscle.
- 31:47Speaker 4: Muscle is our most and you know this muscle is
- 31:49Speaker 4: our most metabolic organ, right, It's our burning machine. It's
- 31:53Speaker 4: our burning calorie machine. So if you lose it while
- 31:55Speaker 4: you're losing weight, that's what's slowing down your metabolism. But
- 31:59Speaker 4: when you're losing the body fat, you're maintaining your muscle
- 32:02Speaker 4: or even gaining muscle. That becomes part of the maintenance
- 32:08Speaker 4: for the weight loss.
- 32:10Speaker 3: Yes, and I think it's interesting too that a lot
- 32:15Speaker 3: of you know, young trainers or just people not even
- 32:19Speaker 3: in the profession, think that there it's shocking to think
- 32:23Speaker 3: that like someone who is obese they carry a lot
- 32:28Speaker 3: of muscle mass, they also carry a lot of fat mass,
- 32:31Speaker 3: but it's assumed that they just don't have a lot
- 32:33Speaker 3: of muscle mass and that's not the case.
- 32:36Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting because research has shown that yes, people
- 32:40Speaker 4: with obesity have more muscle masks, but it's not healthy,
- 32:44Speaker 4: all healthy muscle mass because there is fat in between
- 32:49Speaker 4: the muscle vibers. So it's not necessarily that their metabolism
- 32:54Speaker 4: is higher because they have so much muscle. Their muscle
- 32:57Speaker 4: is not the same when it's lean muscle.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Okay, that's the ticket, right exactly, So.
- 33:04Speaker 6: When you're on this medication, it really is way more
- 33:08Speaker 6: beneficial to strength train and work out while you take this.
- 33:13Speaker 5: Medication one hundred percent.
- 33:16Speaker 4: So and it's strength training what I recommend right at
- 33:20Speaker 4: Persistence strength training. It's important for many patients. It will
- 33:26Speaker 4: take time, It will take twenty thirty pounds of weight
- 33:28Speaker 4: loss before they feel motivated physically and mentally motivated to.
- 33:33Speaker 5: Go to exercise.
- 33:35Speaker 4: Right, But I always have that the initial consult is
- 33:39Speaker 4: always half of it is going to be exercise improtein
- 33:45Speaker 4: exercise and protein or exercise and diet doesn't replace the medications.
- 33:50Speaker 4: The medications don't replace exercise and dieting.
- 33:53Speaker 5: It's hand in handfete.
- 33:56Speaker 7: Yeah, need all of the components.
- 34:00Speaker 6: Okay, so what about people that are taking it that
- 34:05Speaker 6: aren't Obyes, but they just have that like ten to
- 34:08Speaker 6: fifteen pounds and they just want to do it short
- 34:12Speaker 6: term and take it like patients that come to you.
- 34:17Speaker 7: I mean, do you have any patients like that?
- 34:19Speaker 5: Yes?
- 34:20Speaker 4: And it's easy to say when somebody, oh, it's only
- 34:25Speaker 4: ten or only fifteen, only twenty pounds that I may
- 34:27Speaker 4: have to lose, and whenever I do a body composition,
- 34:29Speaker 4: it turns out that they have really highly seal fat
- 34:32Speaker 4: or they.
- 34:33Speaker 5: Have more than ten pounds to lose.
- 34:36Speaker 4: Right, So if we go by the number and the scale,
- 34:40Speaker 4: or we go by the BMI, I think we are
- 34:43Speaker 4: undertreating many patients that can be that should.
- 34:48Speaker 5: Be treated, right.
- 34:49Speaker 4: So I feel like it's not fair to say this
- 34:52Speaker 4: patient doesn't need it just by looking at them without
- 34:55Speaker 4: knowing their body composition.
- 34:56Speaker 5: Right.
- 34:57Speaker 4: And then for those patients that are doing what they
- 35:00Speaker 4: should and they still cannot lose those twenty pounds, then
- 35:04Speaker 4: I dig more deeper into how much is this consuming
- 35:09Speaker 4: your life?
- 35:10Speaker 5: Right?
- 35:11Speaker 4: How much is this take over your day? And for
- 35:14Speaker 4: some patients it becomes again a twenty four seven to
- 35:17Speaker 4: lose twenty thirty pounds or ten to fifteen pounds. Then
- 35:20Speaker 4: those patients, if they didn't do what they were doing,
- 35:23Speaker 4: probably they will need more pounds to lose. So those
- 35:26Speaker 4: patients would benefit from the medication, right because they're being
- 35:32Speaker 4: consumed by that. And if we put their perimenopause menopause,
- 35:37Speaker 4: then it's going to be classic that they're doing what
- 35:41Speaker 4: they were doing in their thirties early forties and it's
- 35:44Speaker 4: not happening and they keep gaining weight, and it's because
- 35:46Speaker 4: of those changing hormones.
- 35:47Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, which brings me to my next talk.
- 35:52Speaker 6: The next btalkic that Haley and I love to talk about.
- 35:56Speaker 2: The hormone replacement therapy.
- 35:57Speaker 3: That ozembic study that just came out, which I haven't
- 36:00Speaker 3: had time to read because I just launched a course
- 36:03Speaker 3: a few days ago and I'm like buried, But I've
- 36:07Speaker 3: seen you talk about it already and I've seen it
- 36:10Speaker 3: on social media. So can we talk about that weight
- 36:14Speaker 3: loss response in regards with into hormone replacement therapy.
- 36:20Speaker 4: So, in this study showed that women that were on
- 36:23Speaker 4: HRT on hormone replacement therapy and semalutype versus the ones
- 36:27Speaker 4: that were just on HRT, they lost more than thirty
- 36:30Speaker 4: percent more weight loss than the ones that were that
- 36:33Speaker 4: was not on SAMLU type. With HRT, it's a very
- 36:37Speaker 4: small study, right, I feel like before we jump the
- 36:41Speaker 4: gun into saying that HRT helps with weight loos what
- 36:45Speaker 4: it does. It changes your body composition when we lose estrogen.
- 36:48Speaker 4: When we lose estrogen, the body fat that was in
- 36:51Speaker 4: our fertile years and our hip and our legs goes intravisceral,
- 36:55Speaker 4: so in our midline. Right when we give back the estrogen,
- 37:00Speaker 4: there is again that change in body composition.
- 37:03Speaker 5: We lose visceral fat.
- 37:04Speaker 4: It goes more into our ferral years areas, but it
- 37:07Speaker 4: doesn't cause weight loss. It just changes the bio redistribution.
- 37:12Speaker 4: Now we know that with perimenopause and menopause, especially with
- 37:15Speaker 4: the heart flashes, the lack of sleep that demotivates a
- 37:19Speaker 4: woman to exercise, right because you're tired, you're not sleeping, well,
- 37:24Speaker 4: you have the heart flashes. So they didn't look that
- 37:28Speaker 4: in the study if their lifestyle changed, it that they
- 37:32Speaker 4: were more prone to follow a healthy lifestyle just from
- 37:36Speaker 4: the decrease of some of the perimenopaustal symptoms including depression,
- 37:40Speaker 4: mental health, changing mood. So it's not the actual hormone
- 37:44Speaker 4: replacement therapy causing the weight loss. We don't know if
- 37:49Speaker 4: there were other factors involved because they didn't check them.
- 37:53Speaker 3: Well, I just love that there's a study on this
- 37:56Speaker 3: early with menopausal women because as you know, and I know,
- 38:02Speaker 3: and like, it's it's just we always get the shaft
- 38:06Speaker 3: in this age group.
- 38:07Speaker 2: It's like, oh, well, you know.
- 38:10Speaker 4: But I always tell my friends and patients, I said,
- 38:13Speaker 4: this is we're living in the right time to be
- 38:16Speaker 4: this age.
- 38:17Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 38:18Speaker 7: I could not agree more. That was one of my
- 38:21Speaker 7: fears in.
- 38:24Speaker 5: Changing.
- 38:25Speaker 4: And I'm so happy, and I'm so excited for a
- 38:27Speaker 4: woman and for myself and for my daughters because yeah,
- 38:32Speaker 4: we have ones were accepting more hormone replacement therapy. We
- 38:36Speaker 4: know it's safe, we know the short term benefits and
- 38:40Speaker 4: the long term benefits right, and now we have medications
- 38:45Speaker 4: that can help us with weightloads that for whatever reason,
- 38:50Speaker 4: it cannot happen on its own. So we are building superwomen,
- 38:55Speaker 4: superhuman and.
- 38:56Speaker 5: I feel like it's well deserved.
- 38:59Speaker 4: We waited for a long time, you know, no more
- 39:02Speaker 4: mental health, no more putting on unto the presence, no
- 39:04Speaker 4: more getting the short stick of the end. It's just
- 39:08Speaker 4: no more gaslighting. All our symptoms.
- 39:10Speaker 5: Basically, Yeah, one amen, I know.
- 39:15Speaker 6: I've been terrified to go through menopause and because I
- 39:19Speaker 6: thought my biggest fear was I'm not going to have
- 39:23Speaker 6: control of my body, because that's kind of what the
- 39:27Speaker 6: conversation always leads to. All of a sudden, I've gained weight,
- 39:30Speaker 6: I'm exhausted, the hormones, all of the things, and like
- 39:33Speaker 6: now we have all these tools. We have hormone replacement,
- 39:37Speaker 6: this medication, everything else, and it doesn't scare me, which
- 39:40Speaker 6: feels empowering.
- 39:43Speaker 4: And the best anti aging is muscle, right, So we
- 39:49Speaker 4: also have this concept. Now we're accepting this concept that
- 39:52Speaker 4: none more exercising just to lose weight, but for longevity
- 39:56Speaker 4: and anti aging. So we have we have where where
- 40:00Speaker 4: packed with our hormones are some muglutide and our right
- 40:03Speaker 4: left and we have all the tools and our protect
- 40:06Speaker 4: for a long, healthy, high quality of life.
- 40:11Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of I'm majo.
- 40:16Speaker 3: That was like perfection that needs to be like on
- 40:19Speaker 3: a billboard or something.
- 40:21Speaker 5: Let me get a T shirt.
- 40:22Speaker 4: No, it's just you know, it's like I feel like
- 40:25Speaker 4: we women, like we get asked for so much and
- 40:28Speaker 4: we have so much pressure that even like midlife is like, Okay, now,
- 40:31Speaker 4: how are you gonna uh.
- 40:33Speaker 5: What are you gonna do now? New?
- 40:35Speaker 7: Right?
- 40:35Speaker 4: Like you have to reinvent yourself and yeah, it's like, no,
- 40:39Speaker 4: we've done enough. I feel like, also, we should see
- 40:43Speaker 4: it as just a continuation of our life. It doesn't
- 40:46Speaker 4: have to be this big change that what are we
- 40:49Speaker 4: going to do now? Just continue being as fabulous as
- 40:52Speaker 4: you were before going through benopause. It's just a continuation
- 40:57Speaker 4: of our mental life, sex life, which I think is
- 41:03Speaker 4: very important. And I feel like many women let it
- 41:06Speaker 4: go and give up after children, or.
- 41:08Speaker 5: After forty or after fifty. It is like, we don't
- 41:11Speaker 5: deserve our sex life. We had enough. We are kids.
- 41:14Speaker 4: No, you need to serve a healthy, satisfying sexual life,
- 41:18Speaker 4: physical life, so we we have the tools.
- 41:24Speaker 7: I appreciate you saying all of that. That speaks volumes
- 41:29Speaker 7: to me.
- 41:29Speaker 3: I feel like, so, what what are the drugs that
- 41:35Speaker 3: are Are there any drugs coming up? I remember you
- 41:37Speaker 3: saying something like this, and it piqued my interest a
- 41:39Speaker 3: few months ago about a new drug coming out. Maybe
- 41:46Speaker 3: it's out already, I'm not sure the timeline. It was
- 41:48Speaker 3: probably six months ago that there's a new drug that
- 41:52Speaker 3: can help hold on to muscle masks, Like, how is that?
- 41:55Speaker 5: So?
- 41:56Speaker 2: What is that?
- 41:57Speaker 4: This what we're seeing right now in samagot at osmpic
- 42:00Speaker 4: is the tip, right, It's just it. It's the beginning
- 42:05Speaker 4: of very sophisticated drugs that are coming our way. One
- 42:10Speaker 4: of them is one that promotes the weight loss, that
- 42:13Speaker 4: has the DP part and it has medication that will
- 42:18Speaker 4: help prevent muscle loss and help muscle gain in the drug.
- 42:24Speaker 7: Right, why it's like sign me up for that? Is
- 42:27Speaker 7: there a trial?
- 42:29Speaker 4: So there's again that the drugs are going to become
- 42:32Speaker 4: very sophisticated in the future. This is just the beginning.
- 42:36Speaker 4: I mean this, what we're seeing now is probably the
- 42:39Speaker 4: biggest event in medicine that we're going to see in
- 42:42Speaker 4: our lifetime.
- 42:44Speaker 7: Happening so exciting.
- 42:47Speaker 3: Oh so what is your professional opinion then about if
- 42:53Speaker 3: there is a drug that can hang on the muscle
- 42:55Speaker 3: or even grow muscle, why would somebody need to eat
- 42:58Speaker 3: a lot of protein and weight train because.
- 43:02Speaker 4: You need protein, you need the amino acids to build muscle.
- 43:05Speaker 4: Right that that is not sustainable, I mean nutrition. I
- 43:10Speaker 4: don't think there will be a point that will be
- 43:13Speaker 4: replaceable by a drug. Right, we need food, and our
- 43:19Speaker 4: muscles need amino acids right to build muscles. So you
- 43:23Speaker 4: can have a pro you can have a protein or
- 43:26Speaker 4: or a medication that prevents muscle laws, but you still
- 43:31Speaker 4: need the basis to promote muscle gain and to maintain
- 43:36Speaker 4: the muscle.
- 43:37Speaker 5: Right.
- 43:38Speaker 3: I'm trying to foresee the questions that will come up.
- 43:43Speaker 4: And again, this is not out yet, and even when
- 43:48Speaker 4: a medication comes out, you have to realize those are
- 43:52Speaker 4: control studies of one thousand and two thousand and two thousand.
- 43:55Speaker 4: But once it's out in the public, then we learn
- 43:58Speaker 4: more about them and what is still needed or not needed.
- 44:02Speaker 4: Like Ocempic, these medications. In the studies, they never did
- 44:06Speaker 4: body compositions, so they didn't.
- 44:08Speaker 5: Know that there was muscle loss.
- 44:11Speaker 4: Okay, until now we're doing it and we're doing body
- 44:13Speaker 4: compositions and everybody and we're like, oh, they lost thirty pounds,
- 44:17Speaker 4: but ten were muscle, so we're fixing that. So the
- 44:20Speaker 4: same way it's going to be with the future drugs.
- 44:26Speaker 3: So if somebody comes into you, I think this is
- 44:29Speaker 3: the other issue. How because it can be like five hundred,
- 44:33Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars a month, does insurance cover it for everyone?
- 44:37Speaker 2: Or is it still.
- 44:38Speaker 4: Hitting insurances the rock of every doctor in the shoe.
- 44:43Speaker 2: Yes, but how is it that's crazy in America? Like
- 44:47Speaker 2: can we not fix it still?
- 44:50Speaker 4: When there was and there was when there was shortage
- 44:53Speaker 4: of the medication? Oh, I see all my like my
- 44:55Speaker 4: assistance in my office. I call it the hunger games.
- 44:57Speaker 4: It was like getting to see who had the pharma.
- 45:00Speaker 4: You have the pharmacy had it or not? It's in
- 45:02Speaker 4: the insurance who would approve it?
- 45:05Speaker 2: Right now?
- 45:05Speaker 4: There's guidelines that the insurances go by, and it's the
- 45:08Speaker 4: guidelines that were done by the Obesity Society and the
- 45:11Speaker 4: Obesity Medical Association where they state that BMI greater equal
- 45:17Speaker 4: or greater to twenty seven with one commorbidity and this
- 45:20Speaker 4: could be sleep, apnelstarthritis.
- 45:22Speaker 5: High cholesterol are approved are for.
- 45:26Speaker 4: Weight loss medication or a BMI equal or greater than
- 45:29Speaker 4: thirty without any commobidity. They meet the qualifications for a
- 45:33Speaker 4: weight loss medications.
- 45:34Speaker 5: Right.
- 45:34Speaker 4: So you have a patient that may meet the qualifications,
- 45:39Speaker 4: but then the insurance may not have it on their plan. Right,
- 45:44Speaker 4: So it's not just that you meet the qualifications that
- 45:46Speaker 4: the insurance requires, but also that they actually have it
- 45:49Speaker 4: in their plan and some insurances have what they call exclusions,
- 45:53Speaker 4: and those are never approved even that you meet the qualifications.
- 45:58Speaker 4: And because there's medications relatively expensive, so most insurances don't
- 46:03Speaker 4: have them in their formulary. Now, if you're going to
- 46:06Speaker 4: pay out of pocket with the medication, then then whereby
- 46:09Speaker 4: passing the insurance? Right, But there are expensive medications. But
- 46:14Speaker 4: my question is how much money do people spend on
- 46:18Speaker 4: all the other diets right that they go through thousands
- 46:24Speaker 4: through their lifetime.
- 46:25Speaker 7: And how much is your health worth to you?
- 46:28Speaker 6: In my opinion, I mean, if someone said, I mean,
- 46:31Speaker 6: I don't know the cost of all of them, but
- 46:33Speaker 6: I don't know, I would say that your health should
- 46:35Speaker 6: be the number one most important thing that you're spending
- 46:39Speaker 6: your money and time on.
- 46:41Speaker 4: Yeah, and for out of pocket. Both pharmaceuticals right now
- 46:45Speaker 4: that have coupons. If you have a commercial insurance and
- 46:49Speaker 4: you're out of pocket meaning that the insurance is not
- 46:51Speaker 4: covering it, they have a coupon and it comes out
- 46:55Speaker 4: to about five hundred dollars a month, either Ozempegagobi, Munjaro
- 46:59Speaker 4: or step bound more likely around the same price if
- 47:04Speaker 4: you don't have insurance, and then it's about eleven hundred
- 47:07Speaker 4: dollars a month.
- 47:09Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's a lot.
- 47:12Speaker 7: Yeah, that is a lot.
- 47:13Speaker 3: But how scary is it to take something like you know,
- 47:17Speaker 3: a lot of the Americans. I'm not going to say
- 47:20Speaker 3: that I've never done it, go to Mexico and get
- 47:23Speaker 3: like a sleep drug or something like how dangerous would
- 47:27Speaker 3: it be for I'm sure there's nine million places that
- 47:31Speaker 3: you can get it, but like you said, it's not
- 47:33Speaker 3: through a physician, it's not managed can.
- 47:37Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure those can be dangerous, just.
- 47:39Speaker 4: For you to know it's Unfortunately in the US, how
- 47:41Speaker 4: the prices of the medications are ridiculously high. It drugs,
- 47:46Speaker 4: osmpic and a pharmacy here in the United States out
- 47:49Speaker 4: of pocket is going to be eleven hundred dollars for
- 47:51Speaker 4: a month's supply. If you go anywhere else outside not
- 47:55Speaker 4: just Mexico, if you go to the Middle East, in
- 47:58Speaker 4: Europe and in Latin America, it's about two hundred dollars
- 48:01Speaker 4: a month.
- 48:02Speaker 5: Oh my what?
- 48:04Speaker 2: Okay, So it is the same though, it is It's
- 48:06Speaker 2: not like sketchy.
- 48:07Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's not the same. It's the same.
- 48:11Speaker 3: This makes me so mad, like about America, because I
- 48:15Speaker 3: had a son that needed acutane.
- 48:17Speaker 2: And we were on like.
- 48:21Speaker 3: Private insurance at the time, like our own insurance. My
- 48:25Speaker 3: husband owned his own business at the time, and it
- 48:27Speaker 3: was five hundred dollars a month, and that was a
- 48:33Speaker 3: hard pill to swallow. But I'm like, my team doesn't
- 48:35Speaker 3: want to go outside. But then when we swapped somewhere
- 48:38Speaker 3: in between the eighteen months or what, I don't know
- 48:41Speaker 3: how long he was on it, but another one was
- 48:44Speaker 3: five was five dollars a month, just like a main
- 48:47Speaker 3: provider insurance, and I was like, this is there should
- 48:50Speaker 3: not be that discrepancy of five hundred and for any medication, Like,
- 48:59Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 48:59Speaker 2: It really is frustrated.
- 49:01Speaker 5: It is very frustrating. It is very frustrating.
- 49:03Speaker 4: And so you have people and then we like, there's
- 49:06Speaker 4: a Canadian there's Canadian pharmacies that they can patients get
- 49:10Speaker 4: it for about three hundred dollars a month with ascription
- 49:13Speaker 4: from from a US prescription.
- 49:15Speaker 5: Well, yes it is.
- 49:18Speaker 6: Yeah, do you think there'll be a shortage again since
- 49:22Speaker 6: there's it's like such a big medication.
- 49:26Speaker 4: There are small shortages of certain doses from time to time.
- 49:32Speaker 5: But I feel like the production Eli Leley.
- 49:37Speaker 4: Is doing the best, they're building factors as we speak,
- 49:41Speaker 4: to be able to supply. But it's just that demand
- 49:44Speaker 4: is so great, right world.
- 49:46Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know I was in Australia the first
- 49:52Speaker 3: of the year and they were all sold out well
- 49:58Speaker 3: as as the strength and conditioning coaches were saying, because
- 50:01Speaker 3: all the bodybuilders were like hugging it from everyone.
- 50:06Speaker 2: Which is terrible.
- 50:07Speaker 3: I mean it's you know, like I don't know if
- 50:10Speaker 3: there's a shortage now, but I know that they were
- 50:12Speaker 3: like again, there were two sides to the story. But
- 50:17Speaker 3: down there it's it's very different obviously than here as well.
- 50:22Speaker 3: Every country has their own kind of issues and things,
- 50:26Speaker 3: but we've got to get the insurance part figured out
- 50:29Speaker 3: here in America for.
- 50:31Speaker 5: Sure, even for so for patients and for doctors.
- 50:34Speaker 3: Honestly, Yeah, yeah, I mean I ended up going I
- 50:38Speaker 3: ended up having a knee surgery, a major knee surgery
- 50:42Speaker 3: at HSS in New York and one of the top
- 50:46Speaker 3: physicians that there were like two that did this specific
- 50:49Speaker 3: knee surgery on women over forty because it's a terrible
- 50:52Speaker 3: success rate, and the doctor's like, well here's my price.
- 50:56Speaker 2: I'm like I'm out of pocket, and I was like,
- 50:58Speaker 2: take my money.
- 51:00Speaker 3: It was I mean, I was so desperate because I'd
- 51:02Speaker 3: been a year with just like nothing. But I get
- 51:05Speaker 3: why why physicians are just like, I'm not working with
- 51:08Speaker 3: us anymore.
- 51:09Speaker 5: It's yeah, it's a circumsturance in my office. But this
- 51:15Speaker 5: is so frustrated.
- 51:16Speaker 4: And spend one hour with my patients, right yeah, And
- 51:19Speaker 4: when you're talking to someone with obesity that they've struggled
- 51:23Speaker 4: to childhood and they're in an adult life, you cannot
- 51:27Speaker 4: have this conversation in fifteen minutes. You cannot open to
- 51:30Speaker 4: anybody in fifteen minutes. You can earn a trust and
- 51:34Speaker 4: build a relationship with a fifteen minute appointment.
- 51:37Speaker 5: Right.
- 51:38Speaker 3: No, I'm in love with you, and I'm like you
- 51:41Speaker 3: need to be in Let's put a trip to New York, Ailee.
- 51:45Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
- 51:46Speaker 2: We're going to New York.
- 51:48Speaker 3: And I mean, I just think of all of these
- 51:50Speaker 3: people that have reached out to me that like, I mean,
- 51:56Speaker 3: they need you on speed dial. I don't even know
- 51:58Speaker 3: if are you taking new patients?
- 52:00Speaker 5: Yes, I am.
- 52:01Speaker 7: You do zoom like so for people that don't live
- 52:04Speaker 7: in New York.
- 52:05Speaker 4: Yes, I do tell a medicine I have patience all
- 52:08Speaker 4: over the world and.
- 52:11Speaker 3: You're about to not be accepting new patients because everyone
- 52:14Speaker 3: is going to be obsessed and like coming to you exactly,
- 52:17Speaker 3: but get on the wait list for a year.
- 52:20Speaker 4: No, I'm working very hard so I can accept I
- 52:23Speaker 4: cannot see everybody. I accepted that and I can't, but
- 52:26Speaker 4: I'm trying to see as much as I can.
- 52:29Speaker 2: I love that too.
- 52:31Speaker 6: Well.
- 52:31Speaker 3: Okay, so before we close, and this is something that
- 52:35Speaker 3: we should have talked about at the very first, but
- 52:36Speaker 3: I've just been so it's been so fascinating this entire conversation.
- 52:41Speaker 2: Can you explain for people?
- 52:43Speaker 3: I feel like everyone knows about these drugs now, especially
- 52:47Speaker 3: from like Oprah, you know, has talked about it a lot,
- 52:50Speaker 3: and obviously a lot of big people on social media.
- 52:53Speaker 3: But for someone that's like, oh, okay, I know that
- 52:56Speaker 3: this is a weightless drug, but what is it actually
- 52:58Speaker 3: doing to help me lose weight?
- 53:00Speaker 2: For people that don't understand that part.
- 53:03Speaker 4: So the pharmacology of this drug is there are synthetic hormones.
- 53:10Speaker 4: We make this hormone GLP one in our small gout and.
- 53:15Speaker 5: What they do.
- 53:16Speaker 4: We have receptors for this hormone all over our body.
- 53:21Speaker 4: But in regards to weilos what they do is in
- 53:24Speaker 4: our gut, in our stomach, we have receptors that when
- 53:28Speaker 4: we have this medication, when we take this medication, when
- 53:31Speaker 4: this hormone is there, it increases our satiety hormones, so
- 53:34Speaker 4: it activates our satiety. So when you start eating, it
- 53:39Speaker 4: activates your satiety signals and you get fuller with smaller
- 53:43Speaker 4: portions of food. And then in between meals it suppresses
- 53:47Speaker 4: your hunger hormones. So when you feel hungry, you eat
- 53:51Speaker 4: small portion, you get physically full and satisfied, and then
- 53:54Speaker 4: you're not hungry for a few hours. Then you get
- 53:56Speaker 4: hungry again, but then you eat a small normal portion.
- 54:01Speaker 4: And then in our brain in the hedonistic eating and
- 54:04Speaker 4: drinking area where we eat for our reward, for pleasure,
- 54:09Speaker 4: anxiety border, it takes away any anticipation of our reward
- 54:15Speaker 4: from food or alcohol. So if you think about it,
- 54:18Speaker 4: let's say a glass of wine. Whenever we think, oh,
- 54:20Speaker 4: I'm going to have a glass of wine at night,
- 54:22Speaker 4: you're anticipating I'm gonna feel relaxed, I'm gonna feel this,
- 54:26Speaker 4: I'm going to be in a social setting. It takes
- 54:29Speaker 4: away that anticipation. You reach for it, and it doesn't
- 54:33Speaker 4: give you that back anymore, and the behavior changes.
- 54:37Speaker 5: Same with foods.
- 54:38Speaker 4: Of some patients that eat border or anxiety at night
- 54:41Speaker 4: or bench at night, it's because you're seeking some sort
- 54:44Speaker 4: of relief or some sort of reward.
- 54:46Speaker 5: It takes it away.
- 54:47Speaker 4: You still enjoy your food when you're eating and you're hungry,
- 54:50Speaker 4: but when you're physically content, you don't think of food
- 54:54Speaker 4: anymore besides us food when you're hungry. So that's what
- 54:59Speaker 4: that noise that people say that stops because you're not
- 55:02Speaker 4: you don't and then and then it's not like you
- 55:04Speaker 4: don't have anything else to look for, because many patients said, well,
- 55:07Speaker 4: food is my pleasure.
- 55:09Speaker 5: Is you replace it for something else?
- 55:12Speaker 4: Many patients replace it with exercise, anything else, Then it's
- 55:16Speaker 4: not going to be food. And for so many alcohol,
- 55:19Speaker 4: which is another great thing with these medications is that
- 55:22Speaker 4: it cut.
- 55:22Speaker 7: Yeah, there are so many benefits.
- 55:24Speaker 6: Okay, So if one of a patient is on this
- 55:27Speaker 6: long term, do they usually have to stay at the
- 55:31Speaker 6: same dose or do you have to increase it or
- 55:35Speaker 6: decrease it?
- 55:36Speaker 7: Because so.
- 55:38Speaker 4: Depending how much weight we're talking about, right, I mean,
- 55:41Speaker 4: I've have patients the one that lost the.
- 55:43Speaker 5: Most is one hundred and seventy pounds.
- 55:45Speaker 4: Wow, So they work. I mean, when they work, they
- 55:49Speaker 4: work great. But to get to let's say, to that
- 55:53Speaker 4: goal or to thirty forty pounds, we may use higher
- 55:57Speaker 4: doses to get there. But once we're there, when we're
- 56:00Speaker 4: in maintenance, that we're not looking for anymore weight loss.
- 56:03Speaker 4: I cut back on the doses and this slowly. As
- 56:07Speaker 4: slowly we went up, slowly, we will go down because
- 56:11Speaker 4: we're not looking for more weight loss. With the patient
- 56:14Speaker 4: can be eating a little bit more for maintenance.
- 56:19Speaker 7: That makes sense.
- 56:20Speaker 6: I cannot believe the behavior, psychological changes, all the benefits
- 56:26Speaker 6: that come from this drug.
- 56:29Speaker 4: I've had grown men cry in my office that the
- 56:33Speaker 4: time they feel relief.
- 56:36Speaker 2: Yeah, that's okay. So wrapping up, Laura, do you have
- 56:41Speaker 2: any other questions?
- 56:42Speaker 6: No, I feel like you explain this so well, and
- 56:49Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 56:49Speaker 7: This has been such an exciting conversation.
- 56:53Speaker 3: I much needed conversation too, so to kind of wrap up.
- 56:58Speaker 3: And you have mentioned this now multiple times in this interview.
- 57:03Speaker 3: The biggest thing about the weight loss. I mean, I'm
- 57:08Speaker 3: just zoning on on one portion, but the muscle mass
- 57:13Speaker 3: is so imperative to keep for a myriad of reasons.
- 57:17Speaker 3: But mainly if we're looking at like, we don't want
- 57:21Speaker 3: the resting metabolic rate to go down from the lack
- 57:25Speaker 3: from the loss of muscle, especially these perimenopause postmenopause puzzle women.
- 57:31Speaker 3: So that has to be the priority. The high protein,
- 57:36Speaker 3: the strength training, you know, along with something like this for.
- 57:41Speaker 2: Those who need it. That's like the magic.
- 57:44Speaker 7: That's the trifecta.
- 57:46Speaker 4: Yeah, and even that I didn't mention this, but what
- 57:49Speaker 4: I see in my body compositions in my patients is
- 57:53Speaker 4: that when they lose muscle mass, they could be in one,
- 57:57Speaker 4: they could be in two weightless medications. They might have
- 58:00Speaker 4: lost ten pounds. If they lose muscle mass, their percentage
- 58:06Speaker 4: body fat may go up even though they lost weight.
- 58:12Speaker 4: So muscle is so imperative for the proper benefit or
- 58:18Speaker 4: the maximum benefit of the medication. And when patients see this,
- 58:23Speaker 4: when they see that they lost muscle and they gain
- 58:26Speaker 4: percentage body fat, it switches completely right, They get why
- 58:30Speaker 4: it matters so much. So I really think we should
- 58:33Speaker 4: focus more on muscle gain or preserving muscle, then weight
- 58:39Speaker 4: loss or fat loss, because if we concentrate on the muscle,
- 58:42Speaker 4: preserving the muscle or muscle gain, the fat loss is happening. Yeah,
- 58:47Speaker 4: you maximize the benefits of these drugs. You need to
- 58:52Speaker 4: have the conversation about muscle.
- 58:57Speaker 2: There it is, Mike drop. Nothing else needs to be such.
- 59:04Speaker 3: Okay, doctor Whalan, thank you so much for joining us this.
- 59:08Speaker 3: I appreciate your time. I know you're on spring break
- 59:12Speaker 3: with your kids taking time away, so.
- 59:14Speaker 2: We are so grateful.
- 59:15Speaker 3: I cannot wait for this episode to air, so thank
- 59:19Speaker 3: you so much for joining us.
- 59:20Speaker 4: Thank you for inviting me. I really enjoy this. We
- 59:23Speaker 4: should do it.
- 59:24Speaker 5: Again talking about Yeah, explusive and menopause. Woman, I think
- 59:28Speaker 5: we should.
- 59:30Speaker 2: Yes, let's do it. That's around two.
- 59:32Speaker 5: This week to serve a full podcast just for them.
- 59:35Speaker 3: Okay, we're doing it. Thanks so much, Thanks for listening everyone.
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