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: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "Do You Have To Take…

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "Do You Have To Take Semaglutide Forever? 🤔" (posted 2024-01-31). The excerpt is a monologue by a single speaker summarizing weight-loss study results for semaglutide—reporting about 15–17% weight loss over one year, with most loss occurring in the first ~13 weeks, a slowdown and plateau by ~48 weeks, and a note about patients being told by pharma that they may need to take the drug indefinitely.

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Between 15% and 17%.

In the first ~13 weeks (the first few months).

About 48 weeks.

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.