Are GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic (Semaglutide) Game Changers for Weight Loss?
The new class of weight-loss drugs including Ozempic has been called a miracle, but history may tell a different story, as most so-called medical sensations diet drugs have been pulled from the market after approval, due to their terrible side effects.
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new all time low for this channel. no clinical evidence given at all. more or less percieved as a threat to his livelyhood.
Whay do you mean? The whole video is scientific papers! Plus, it’s only the first video of the series…
What’s your real name?
@@islandhopper100 what video have you seen?
I kind of agree, at the very least the video is titled poorly and clickbaited me. It ask a question but doesn’t answer it and talked about completely different drugs with different mechanism of action for 5 mins before telling you the answer is actually in the next video
@AndrewPawley11 yea telling strangers on the internet your name is a great idea.
I love this channel!
The bobble head is back.
This video doesn’t answer the question in its title. Waste of time
It’s a series and he stated it in the beginning
Some people are poor readers and listeners@@mamenamamena
I started taking Trulicity… been vegan for 8 years, but all the carbs were not helping, and I became Diabetic. I am taking it only until Feb when I am doing my AC 1 again. I was taking Metformin, and I take them both because each does something different. I did Keto and am doing intermittent fasting with low carbs, and I am down 15 pounds. My blood pressure was bad and now it has gotten better.
Low carbs is not what is recommended on this channel. Look up the book “how not to diet” by Dr Gregor. If you became diabetic then you were eating the wrong carbs.
Impossible to be diabetic and overweight if you only eat natural forms of vegetables, oats, fruit, nuts and beans/lentils/chickpeas.
High fat is possible as a vegan, just as much as Omni.
Thank you!
Ozempic is a dream come true for obese people who want to lose weight without actually doing any work. Do you want to slim down without giving up that daily double bacon cheese burger? Ozempic!
Do you want to be lazy, gluttonous AND slim? Now is your time to shine.
Yeah this is still a good point. I’m not completely against ozempic and other medicines for health (rapamycin for example could help people live much longer). But for weight loss it’s kinda funny that we need drugs just to be a normal weight. If people just ate natural foods like they did 1000s of years ago then there’d be no issues.
I think most people have no idea how important fibre is. I don’t eat anything without fibre in it. Impossible to be obese with a very high fibre, low fat diet.
I feel the exact same way about drug addicts and those with mental health conditions. They’re just being lazy!
Big fan of the channel but this video was a little pointless. Just basically saying to be cautious and we don’t know the very long term effects. Should’ve done a longer video.
It’s a series and he states it in the beginning!!!
@mamenamamena I understand that, but I think the format for this particular series doesn’t work very well. The videos are too short. A 2 part series of each being 12-15 minutes would make more sense.
As a fan of the channel he does all his videos like this. He rolls them out in small segments. That said I agree with you. I wish he would just do longer videos. It makes it hard to share it with ppl when I have to send them multiple videos. Would be much better just to send one video that’s longer
It’s either your first time at Greger’s channel or you are taking Ozempic
@@Nice-sm5hr Neither are true lol. Ideally everyone would eat a WFPB diet, but I’m not naive, I know that will never happen. Ozempic at least can make people healthier and save lives.
For more on Ozempic, check out my new book, OZEMPIC: Risks, Benefits, and Natural Alternatives to GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs, available as an ebook, audiobook, and softcover: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/ozempic/ (currently on sale for 20% off)
no drugs and more nutrition. who ever thought that drugs are healthy?
“Safe and effective” 🙄
A great intro for this new series on weight loss. Thank you.
I’m going to send these particular videos to my patients asking about these meds (I otherwise send many of these videos to my patients and recommend the books).
lmao are you even a real doctor? You send your patients greggers youtube videos? Yikes. Better look up Petter Attia who actually practices medicine.
Found alot of surgical patients whom are on GLP1’s that have fasted for 24hours + and found to still have FULL stomachs (thus surgery was cancelled). Probably some unintended consequence to having food sit in your stomach for 24hrs plus.
It’s so easy to knock something down when you first say it’s trumpeted as a “miracle” over and over again.
Drugs like these knock themselves down and are completely irrelevant if one can choose his/her foods in accordance with health. Low density foods don’t require ANY restrictions, just knowledge and consumption.
@wadepatton2433 if that’s working well enough for you and you’ve achieved your fitness goals, then congrats. It’s not enough for a lot of people. The hunger is real, and the temptations around us too strong thanks to the scientists at Big Food.
I’ve never been this constipated in my life. Haha. Gross.
On ozempic right now, effects are minor tho.
Imagine humanity existing as long as it has with such a complete deficiency of Semaglutide to keep our weight down! How did we manage to make it this far? Oh the struggles we’ve endured! /s
This is a bit facetious. We’ve seen an unprecedented spike in obesity and metabolic diseases since about 1970, which also coincides with a marked increase in UPFs and availability of highly palatable “food”. Also, several governments bought into the lie that fat is bad for you and the resulting campaigns caused sugar and sugar alternatives to be used instead (I don’t have to explain why this contributes to obesity!)
Personal choice is not the only thing contributing to the epidemic and certainly not the only force working against obese individuals
Say what you want Greggy, ozempic IS game changing and one just has to WEIGHT-IN (see what I did there) on the side effects vs. positive effects. The ONLY bad thing about it is slightly higher heart rate (better than having diabetes or stroke) and the price.