Name: Why We Should Give Ozempic to Everybody
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Ozempic or Mounjaro have done what diets and willpower have failed to do so far.

Make millions lose massive amounts of weight with seemingly mild side effects.

More than 1 in 8 US adults have tried the drugs.

For the first time in history, the country's obesity rate actually fell.

Since obesity is one of the unhealthiest things in the world, this seriously poses the question, should we give these drugs to everyone who is overweight to spark a medical revolution like we did with antibiotics and vacc?

At its core, being overweight or obese is a mismatch between how much you eat and how much your body needs.

Eat more calories than you burn and your body will store them as fat.

But just because something depends on what you do, it doesn't mean it's your fault.

Your drive to eat is programmed by evolution and can easily hijack your conscious decisions.

For most of our history, food was scarce.

So when our ancestors found a calorie bomb, binging on it was the best of ide.

The more sugar, fat and salt, the better.

Our brains are wired to love these foods.

They bring pleasure, enjoyment, and mental release.

This helped us survive in a world where food was the most important thing to worry about each day.

And then the world changed overnight and suddenly food was cheap, calorie dense and hyper palatable.

Our ancient biology hijacked our modern behavior.

Most of us can't help ourselves and overeat regularly.

Today, over 40% of adults are overweight.

Obesity affects 1 billion humans and kills almost 4 million annually.

If trends continue, by 2050, 1 in 3 adults on Earth will be obese and half of humanity will be overweight.

Since being overweight is also shamed on top of being unhealthy, we tried to fix our overeating behavior with all sorts of, well, behavioral methods.

The world is filled with diets and healthy habits campaigns.

But anyone who's been on a diet before knows that it's hard and no fun at all.

Not only are you fighting your deep evolutionary programming, you're cutting down on a major source of comfort, social activity and good feelings.

And if you've finally lost weight and want to ease up a little, you're back in the regular world full of amazing foods.

Self regulating around modern food is just too hard.

So almost everybody who loses weight struggles to keep it that way or puts back on even more.

So if fixing our habits doesn't work, what if we fix our biology before we get there?

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Using this Link gives you 40% off an unlimited access subscription and directly supports our channel and now back to Losing weight, Ozempic and Co Many eating behaviors, eat now or later chocolate or vegetables are actually governed by an orchestra of hormones that are not within your control.

You're not hungry in the evening because you decide to be, or because this is when your body needs energy, but

because your body relieves certain hormones.

And it turns out your fat is one of the major regulators of this orchestra.

If you're overweight or obese, the excess fat is throwing your hormonal orchestra out of tune.

This may make you more hungry or push you to overeat more, creating insulin resistance that causes type 2 diabetes and so on.

there's one specific hormone that plays its tune quietly in the background, even in obese people.

Like peptide 1 or GLP1, it's one of the hormones your body releases after a meal.

It tells your pancreas to release more insulin to keep blood sugar in check and slows down your digestion to keep food in your stomach and in your brain.

It increases your feeling of fullness and being satisfied, curbing your appetite.

Once in your bloodstream, GLP1 disappears in barely two minutes, its song quickly fading away.

What if we made artificial copies of GLP1 that play the same song, but louder and much longer?

A GLP1 signal that stays in your body would boost insulin and silence appetite.

The first artificial GLP1 was approved in 2005 for diabetes and in 2014 for obesity.

But the revolution came with semaglutide and Tirzepatide, Ozempic and mounjaro.

Really powerful GLP1 agonists that play their songs in your bloodstream for up to a week.

They send out a loud and steady signal that dials down your appetite 24 7.

You still enjoy food, but you feel full and satisfied much sooner, making it easy to not overeat.

And since the song never really switches off, you feel less hungry throughout your day, making you eat less often.

Hunger is largely genetic, so especially people who suffer from food noise, a constant urge to eat feel a huge psychological relief from the drug.

Finally, their body stopped screaming at them.

Suddenly you're dieting without expending willpower, without really thinking about it.

By changing your biology, a drug changed your behavior.

Miracle Drugs Many people try a crash diet at some point in their lifetime.

And it's not that crash diets don't work.

You can lose 20% of your in three months from 95 to 75 kilos, or 130 to 105.

But such a sudden drop is not very healthy, and

for the vast majority, the weight will come back within a year.

Diets that are sustainable are actually not diets, but long term lifestyle changes.

But this is painfully slow, so a lot of people quit out of frustration.

And among those disciplined enough, Results are pretty modest.

The new drugs change that completely in three months.

You can lose 10% of your initial weight three months later, over 15 and after a year, you may reach more than 20%, a level of weight loss that used to only really be achievable through bariatric surgery.

In other words, GLP1 drugs make excess weight melt away like nothing before.

We can't stress enough how unhealthy obesity is, causing everything from diabetes to heart attacks and cancer.

So the consequences for health are stunning.

Treatment with semaglutide cuts your risk of stroke or heart attack by 20%.

17 months of tirzepatide crashes your chances of developing diabetes by 66%.

They also reduce sleep apnea, improve kidney and liver function, lower inflammation, cut cancer risk, and

They might even boost fatigue fertility, as obesity often disrupts hormones and increases complications during pregnancy.

And there may be more positive long term effects.

Some of these benefits are a direct result of weight loss, but

intriguingly, they sometimes occur regardless of how much weight has been lost.

And some have been seen in patients who weren't obese to begin with.

it seems like Turning up the GLP1 signal is synchronizing the whole metabolic orchestra, restoring a balance between brain, gut and body.

And as if that weren't enough, GLP1 drugs may also quiet other cravings.

They seem to reduce the use of alcohol, nicotine, cannabis and opioids.