Hi, there. It's Kati, again, obviously
Thanks for checking back, now before I get started today into my topic. I want to just thank you all so much for
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Now today's topic is something that comes from a question. I got on YouTube
From one of my subscribers and she wanted to know
How harmful our diet pills and
laxatives and things like that because I know a lot many of us take them and a lot of times we even take them as
Almost like a last resort if some of our other eating disorder behaviors couldn't be acted out in a timely Manner
We you know fall back on these kinds of supplements
now I
Did a lot of research on this because I wanted to make sure I'm giving you enough information
But I also want to let you know that
every website
Everything I read about says something different
But the things that they did have in common is what I'm going to share with you today because I feel like that's the most
Data supported answer now as far as diet pills go
Obviously, I don't really support their use, but I understand that a lot of us use them and the main
problems in my main worry, I guess with using diet pills is if they have a lot of caffeine which most of them do and
If they are what they call like fat blocker ones there are certain kinds out there that they call fat blockers now
the ones that are fat blockers also
block out certain vitamins, so when you're [actually] eating
You're not getting the nutrients that your body needs because this pill is stopping your body from absorbing everything
So yes, that's probably why they say it works although the studies weren't very
Impressive to me but you're also
Losing all that other good stuff like maybe we need some vitamin a and Vitamin D
And we're getting some vitamin C. But we're not getting any of that because [that]
Diet pill is like blah stopping everything and we're just flushing it through our systems
so that's one of the main concerns
The second concern is because of the caffeine in them our
heart rate goes up our blood pressure goes up and that can be really difficult especially for
those of you who are bulimic and struggle with purging because when we vomit a lot our
Potassium levels go down our electrolytes get imbalanced [and] our heart rate becomes irregular sometimes
and that's the biggest danger with any eating disorder to be honest is death from Heart attack and
so when we're pairing dangerous behavior with a diet pill that has a dangerous side effect the
intense amounts of caffeine
we're
We're kind of making things a little bit worse. We're like doubling our side effect
If that makes sense, so those are my two biggest concerns when it comes to diet pills
others are
Just the regular side effects as far as dry mouth constipation
even diarrhea
horrible stomach cramps a lot of times on if anybody else notices this
but when I take my womans once daily vitamin in the morning
I always take it on a full stomach because if I take it on an empty stomach, I'm like oh
Your stomach is killing all and I hate it right and even when I eat afterwards
I'm like I should have that breakfast first. It's like the worst stomach ache of your life
Right everybody else really understand right? It's horrible, so
The cramping and all those issues it really causes your stomach and your intestines
it's really difficult for them to break it down. So they're working extra hard and
Especially if we're taking the other diet pills, and then we don't even get those nutrients poof. They're just gone
It's blocking them or just peeing them out or whatever so that's another kind of issue is just the actual
like uncomfortability of it and
the other thing that I will talk about now is laxatives because I know a lot of us will take diet pills with laxatives and
Laxatives to me are also pretty scary because we're already
Possibly purging so we're getting rid of fluids that way a lot of us drink a lot of diet soda and coffee
to keep our bodies awake, and alert because we're not giving it the energy that it needs through food and
so when we take laxatives we're just flushing out that much more fluid and electrolytes and potassium and
everything and
to be honest laxatives aren't
calorically, they're not really getting rid of anything is just water weight, right and we need that water because we're already very dehydrated and
Laxative abuse can also lead to a lot of irritation of the stomach lining
Your lower intestine as well as issues with your colon. I know a lot of us don't want to talk about the stuff
That's kind of embarrassing and gross a little bit, but if we're using laxatives
And we're abusing laxatives your colon slowly becomes eroded
Now I'm sure there's some fancy pantsy medical term that they use for that, but what this really means is that
After I don't even know how much abuse but after abusing laxatives for a long period of time you can lose the ability to control
When when you poop and when you don't poop?
So what that really means is you could have to wear a diaper and I know I'm not using a scare tactic
I know this is freaking you out, but just so you know I've had
three patients that I've seen
Maybe four I forget, but three or four
I don't know if the other one actually had to wear diapers, but she would have to go to the bathroom like
Immediately, but that they'd lost the ability because of laxative abuse and a lot of times you have to go in for surgery to get
part of your colon removed because it's so damaged so be careful because
There's nothing more horrible and horrifying and being like thirty years old and having to wear an adult diaper
Right that's that is horrible
And I don't wish on anyone so those I know this is like a really downer of a video, but I'm sorry
But it's just information that you requested and I would encourage you if you're going to start using something
We are on it all the time
Check it out read about what can happen. It's like any medication if my doctor gives me something because my back is hurting
I want to read about what it does to my body, right?
we worry so much about the food that we put in our mouths but
We'll take some diet pills because oh it says slimmer waistline in three days and blah blah right so think about it and read about
it and
Let me know if there's other information that you know and again obviously my community what I'm trying to create is positive
And we're pro recovery, but I would like you to leave information if you know like hey
I use this and it made me so sick
And this is why and that's what my doctor said if you have any of the information
I would love for you to share because I'm doing my research and doing as much as I can but you have information that
Can be really beneficial to everybody else and like I said, I'm only one voice but together we can really move this along, right?
so
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