Ozempic - should you consider taking a GLP1 weight loss drug?

Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, Semaglutide, Tirzepatide - these drugs are everywhere in the media. They have helped a lot of people lose weight. My job is usually in involves helping people who want to lose weight and achieve other health goals without taking drugs. But emerging research shows that these drugs have many benefits in addition to weight loss... They also improve heart health--By improving cardiac output, muscle contractility, and blood flow to the heart and reducing the size of arterial plaques. Their main function is to increase insulin production, delay sugar release from the liver, and delay emptying of the stomach so that you feel full. But new evidence also shows that they may have a protective effect on nerves, and increase your feeling of fullness by direct action on the brain, independent of all the effects on the digestive tract. New complementary protocols are also available which can help prevent the muscle loss that accompanies so many diets.

I’ve just attended an illuminating symposium which included a compelling module on the latest research into these weight loss medications and how to use them at lower doses, combined with healthy, functional medicine and lifestyle interventions, so that people who really need them can reverse diabetes, and/or lose the weight they’ve never been able to lose with other methods, and then keep it off.

This episode aired on Friday, March 21, 2025 on KDAR 98.3 FM.