Is Ozempic (Semaglutide) Safe?
Package inserts for these drugs include warnings and precautions for a host of health concerns, including thyroid tumors, acute kidney injury, increased heart rate, and even suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
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Odds are high that it’s not safe.
Maybe, but is it still safer than being overweight? Time will tell.
Did you watch the video?
@@lukeweaver9287 We humans want a magic pill to solve our problems. We will see in a decade what the effects of this drug will be. I’m curious if it keeps people’s weight off for more than a few years and how it affects their muscular system.
We won’t know until weeee… put it to the test.
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That’s not what he said in the video
Very interesting topic! What do you think about the importance of choosing the right title for a video? 😻👅
Who cares, I’m skinny now!
Just don’t get off the drug 🎉
@@davidgeorge7443 do you have to take this drug the rest of your life? And do you have to increase the dose to maintain your weight?
ANYTHING stops working when you stop doing it. This includes a whole foods plant based diet, by the way.
any drug will have side effects if the duration and dose are great enough
Thank you for the information!
I gave up after one month the side effects causing the constant nausea were too unpleasant for me.
I think this is one of the reasons this drug actually works – causing nausea. Who wants to eat lots of food if feeling bad in their stomach. I hope you find a more sustainable way to lose weight.
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My father has it prescribed for diabetis, he has been in the hospital several times already for uncontrollable nausea, vomitig, diarrhea. But yes he is losing weight, so the drug “works”
He’s probably on semaglutide. Tirzepatide typically causes much less nausea (if any) and works better for weight loss. And the options will only get better from here as new ones get approved.
“We live in a World, where cracking open a patient’s chest, to perform open heart surgery, is considered normal… whilst telling people to boost their intake of fruit and vegetables is considered radical.”
– T. Colin Campbell (could have been Cauldwell Esselstyn 🤔?).
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These meds help decrease cravings for junk foods and make it easier to stick with a whole foods plant based diet.
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Kinda like the Sinclair Method or Antabuse for controlling problematic drinking then?
Got it.
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@@PercivalBlakeney not at all. You just don’t want those cookies, cakes,etc. You still can enjoy one, but it’s an option instead of a compulsion, and you’re satisfied with a small portion. It’s so incredibly liberating for those of us with a life-long issue with sweets, for instance.
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I have literally just finished four carrots.
Michael Greger and Allen Carr both make the point that if you can’t quit the junk, you can at least get the good stuff inside of you to balance it out.
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Bracing for the tantrums in the comments by ozempic users..