Do You Have To Take Semaglutide Forever? 🤔

Name: Do You Have To Take Semaglutide Forever? 🤔
Uploaded: 2024-01-31T16:00:34+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok summarizing clinical-study results for semaglutide: participants lost roughly 15–17% of body weight over a year…

31 Jan 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok summarizing clinical-study results for semaglutide: participants lost roughly 15–17% of body weight over a year, with the largest fraction of loss in the first ~13 weeks, a slowdown afterward and a plateau near 48 weeks; the presenter questions the common perception—attributed to pharmaceutical marketing—that patients must remain on the drug indefinitely.

So we look at the studies, people saw between 15 and 17% weight loss over a year period. And we look at that weight loss, most of it occurred with the highest percentage of weight loss occurred in the first 13 or so weeks. First few months, weight loss really dropped. Weight come down really fast, and then it sort of slowed down and about 48 weeks it trailed off, and then the weight stayed stable or in some cases went up a little bit. So we see the weight loss not continuous, but people are thinking they have to take this drug forever. That's what they're told by Big Pharma.