our desire to be thin can put us in a bad situation can basically cause us to harm
our health that's what I think is happening with this new trend I'm hearing about about
people taking diabetic medication for weight loss purposes and apparently
doctors don't seem to have an issue with prescribing diabetic medication to people
for weight loss now this new drug it's not clear to me whether it's coming from doctors but I do
know that they've done this with metformin I want us to take a really close look at why this is
possibly of one of the worst ideas that's come to weight loss in a long time what's scary to
me is that the use of this medication seems to be focused on weight loss Above All Else weight
loss at any cost because the list of side effects is so long I can't even say them all so I'm just
going to put them on the screen and yet people are still taking it now of course you're not
going to get every side effect I get that but some of the side effects that are listed there
I wouldn't want to have them when people start doing keto there are withdrawal symptoms people
like to call that the keto flu basically meaning that when you stop eating too much sugar so when
your body's not overloaded it's able to detox from the excess sugar is poisonous in larger knots so
really when you start doing keto and you live two to four negative days after about three days I've
had people tell me that that was a big enough reason so they either started to go through keto
flu couldn't manage it or knowing that they'd have to go through keto flu could not even start a keto
diet that was a big enough reason to say keto is off limits but yeah if I'm understanding this well
this long list of negative side effects isn't enough to stop people from taking a drug that
was created by a pharmaceutical company you are actually putting something in your body
that's changing the way your body functions that only works if you keep taking the drug
which means that you have to take it forever and if you stop taking it the weight comes back
and we have no idea what the long-term repercussions of taking this drug will be
on your body for example 5 10 15 years from now because remember you need to take it forever
our kids are watching more social media than they watch television
that means that they have access all the time because they have cell phones in their pockets
tablets in their school bags computers on their on their school desks they are always a click away
from the next celebrity telling them that they need to look like this and talk like that and be
like this and make this much money and I feel like we are not allowing ourselves to see the negative
that this is bringing to the thought process that we all have about our bodies about what's healthy
and what's not healthy we think that the people that we see on social media are normal people
but what we don't really let ourselves understand is that even though yes I'm a normal person the
people that my kids are clicking through and seeing on their phone on their screens
are the people that the majority of people push to the top of their social media
your Instagram influencer your Tick Tock influencer your if you really stop and look you
notice that they have a lot of similarities they are typically thin they are typically wealthy they
are typically quite knowledgeable in whatever it is they happen to be talking about which is great
but can we keep in mind that that typical looks a certain way is a certain way
image that our child is getting likely doesn't match what they look like doesn't match what
I look like doesn't match what a lot of people look like women and girls are constantly being
presented with this idea that we are supposed to be just a little bit thinner than we are
we are not enough as is and I want us to please can we just acknowledge that that's not reality
and I think that if our kids were paying a bit more attention to the real women in their lives
what they would notice is that we all have different shapes and we all have different likes
and even though we might like getting our hair done and our nails done and our makeup done it's
not the number one thing we're thinking about 24 7. real women walking around are not constantly
fussing over their nails and their makeup and their right hair tutorial that I need to
and we're not constantly well here's the problem though we are constantly worrying about our weight
why because we've been told that's what we're supposed to
we are so bombarded with this information that we're constantly worrying about our weight
so much so that we're willing to do just about anything to get it under control but it's not just
the girls anymore I'm about to say something and I don't want all the women to be like oh
yeah finally about time because I feel like all this is doing is solidifying how big of a hold
weight has on us I did not hear about semaglutide from a woman or in a conversation through women
or on a like it what had nothing to do with women when I heard about this it was two guys talking
on a podcast and the person who was taking it his name is Sam par was talking to the other co-host
and he pointed out that well they were talking back and forth about how about ahead of the
curve Sam was for have been taking this six months before it was talked about so now what's happening
is that we have men taking weight loss drugs like women used to do and probably still do do
we've normalized it is that really what we wanted to do normalize it so now are you we have to not
only worry about our daughters taking these medications in their effort to be thin but now
we have to worry about our sons and can I point out that this dude was already in great shape
before he started taking that medication because he said he started taking it six months before
you can go back on the channel and see that he was already in shape he was already working out he was
already talking about his workout routines why is he taking it because you know why not try to
lose a few extra percentages of body fat so what is this helping us to understand well obviously
you don't need to be obese to get prescribed this medication so it's not just for people who
have tried everything else and because this guy is already in great shape and the amount that they're
paying for this medication is actually quite high five hundred dollars a week if I understood him
well this is purely about people who can afford it having a workaround to lose weight faster
than people who can't afford it although people are going to say well if this they can afford it
why not because it's not healthy it's not healthy but we're so brainwashed to believe that be thin
at any cost that we're willing to take a drug that's going to harm our health well can I say
100 is going to harm your health I can't say 100 it's gonna hurt my health why can't I say that
well because the test and the trials and people taking it for 10 15 20 years haven't been done
yet so we don't know what the long-term effect of taking it is but guess what we
do know we know what the short term impact of taking it is right now so first of all just
Sam who was taking it said that what he lived was two weeks of diarrhea again remembering
that people didn't want to do keto if it caused them diarrhea but for some reason
two weeks of diarrhea that's okay two weeks of diarrhea from taking a drug
that's okay because it's going to lead to weight loss and you still get to eat whatever you want
to eat or as a matter of fact well you just don't want to eat because that's part of the
way it works right it just suppresses appetite why would I want my appetite to be suppressed
what happens if my body actually needs nutrients but my appetite's
suppress what happens if my body actually needs energy but my appetite's suppressed
nobody's thinking about that your appetite suppressed yeah you're gonna lose weight
there is a problem there what was frustrating to me watching this episode of these two guys that
typically I watch them because I find their talk about business to be quite interesting their idea
was that well this medication will possibly be the end of obesity right like people can just pay
not be obese anymore and so they could see the met the the marketing part of the story but I think
the thing that I feel like is so short-sighted in this is well first of all what happens if I take
this medication and like most things that we do my body gets used to it well if my body habituates
to the medication that would mean that I would need to take more to get the same impact now has
this happened yet I don't know because if it was happening and people were living through this but
they want to keep taking the drug they're probably not going to complain about it but this is the
first thought that came to me how much of the drug will I eventually end up being needing to take
if I can't ever stop taking it because as soon as I stop taking it the weight comes back
but then obviously my body's gonna get used to so but what is even more concerning to
me is the action of this medication how it causes a person to lose weight
what it's doing is it's stimulating insulin production so that the more insulin in your blood
then the more sugar gets put into cells and it's also stimulating your your gut to
like have less uptake of sugar now these two things together you're losing weight
I want to give you a little refresher class on what insulin resistance is insulin resistance
is caused by the pancreas increasing insulin production to force sugar into cells over time
cells stop responding to insulin and you have now insulin resistance my question is why do
we think that by speeding up this process we are not just pushing people faster towards diabetes
I'm confused by this again always open to any doctor that has information on this to comment or
to have a call with me and help me understand it better but it just seems like we are speeding up
the process of a person becoming insulin resistant remember the average person according to Dr Berry
and Dr Bikman and all kinds of is that you've been insulin resistance for anywhere from two to ten
years before you become diabetic yep increasing insulin production is the action of this drug that
people are taking who are not diabetic yet not as with any medication the other thing that I want us
to think about is that when your doctor gives you a medication and you go home with it then you are
being asked to use it responsibly so what we're asking of people who are apparently I want to
call it obsessed with losing weight because you're willing to take a drug to lose the weight
but maybe you're just concerned about your weight or maybe but whatever we're asking people who are
so focused on weight loss that they're willing to take a drug to take it home and use it responsibly
which means that we believe that they're not going to overtake it but when I did a little
research to find out what would happen if somebody took too much of this medication well they would
become hypoglycemic which is a bad situation you could pass out you could again there's lots
of outcomes that could be negative from becoming hypoglycemic so I'm giving a medication to someone
who's so obsessed with their weight that they're willing to take a medication rather than change
their food so again when it comes to medication especially a medication that makes it seem easy
to lose weight one thing we need to keep in mind is that a lot of people who are overweight
are overweight because they're not eating because of hunger so this medication which curbs hunger
well if I don't eat because I'm hungry there's a chance I'm going to take the medication I'm still
going to eat I'm going to lose weight because the medication is going to force that to happen
but I might not lose weight as fast as I want to I might be tempted to take more of the medication
than I'm supposed to I feel like this is a huge risk the other thing is that because a lot of us
eat even when we're not hungry because we're eating out of the pleasure of eating and not
because of the need for fuel and building blocks this medication doesn't stop us from
eating things that are harming our health like candy and junk food and soda and and
so our health itself is still going to be deteriorating right this medication isn't
going to force us to work out this medication isn't going to force us eat broccoli or or
Stakes all it's going to do is curb our appetite a bit and I want to ask everyone out there
Wellness Warrior have you ever been not hungry maybe because of stress maybe
because of medical reasons but the one thing you were able to eat is junk food
yeah when we're stressed somehow when we have no appetite we still have space for chocolate bars
we still have space for ice cream we still have space for garbage is this really going to solve
the problem long term so we watch a lot of these celebrities taking this medication and talking
about how amazing it is and we don't realize that those same celebrities get paid to be thin
still couldn't seem to manage it without this medication first of all it said help
should tell us all something but second of all we don't get paid to be thin
we have stressful jobs and families and spouses and friends and situations that
come up that might push us to eat emotionally I'm worried Wellness Warrior because in the
keto Community I've seen it where someone starts keto and then right away their fasting
and that same person might also be doing uh calorie restriction and low carb and
when you talk to this person what you find out is that well actually the goal is weight loss
not being healthy and will they get weight loss by doing all of that likely is that a sustainable
thing to do long term not for good health not for comfort and ability to live this lifestyle forever
and as a matter of fact the majority of people that I see do that end up failing all together
why do they fail they fail because that way of doing a keto diet is actually not sustainable
because it's not how it's not the definition of Keto by doing low carb low fat and calorie
restriction chances are very good that you're not even going to get yourself into a ketogenic State
because you're not going to be able to maintain that lifestyle long enough to do that and why
is that happening because the focus is on the wrong thing right weight loss at any cost I
want us to understand that that that's a recipe for disaster this medication seems risky to me
I don't believe that it's taking your health into consideration if you're a diabetic and you need
medication for your diabetes then it's a different story but if you are overweight without diabetes
at the moment and you take this medication what I want you to consider is that even if you lose
weight if I'm pushing my body towards diabetes is that better what happens to people once they
become diabetic most of them gain weight so I'm pushing my body towards diabetes if I'm
understanding all of this correctly and then my body will resume gaining weight
well was the few months few years that I lived at a lower weight worth it compared to
eating a healthy diet allowing your body to get into a ketogenic state
and in that ketogenic State losing the weight and then keep eating the keto diet
I honestly want you to consider that semiglutide is a money-making scenario that doesn't actually
give you long-term benefits a keto diet doesn't make anybody any money but it
gives you long-term benefits I'm talking from experience trying to force your body to lose
weight it just doesn't work if you want to see my fail you can click on this video right there