Fast Weight Loss With Semaglutide?

Name: Fast Weight Loss With Semaglutide?
Uploaded: 2024-06-13T12:00:03+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short YouTube clinical commentary (Dr. Charles Mok) describing a biohacking-style protocol used at Allure: semaglutide is started at 0.25 mg for the…

13 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clinical commentary (Dr. Charles Mok) describing a biohacking-style protocol used at Allure: semaglutide is started at 0.25 mg for the first four weeks with stepwise escalation; weight loss often slows and tolerance arises around 12–13 weeks, at which point the speaker recommends stopping semaglutide (~13 weeks) and transitioning patients to metformin, often ~850 mg nightly. Metformin is noted for diabetes/prediabetes treatment and being studied for longevity.

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0.25 milligrams for the first four weeks.

Around 12–13 weeks.

Stop the medicine at about 13 weeks.

Usually about 850 milligrams at night.

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We've been able to use sort of a biohacking principle at allure with our patients. We treat to several, several thousand, where we put people on semaglutide at the regular escalating dose. It's 0.25 milligrams for the first four weeks. And it goes up and goes up and goes up. Right about 12 or 13 weeks, you start becoming very tolerant to the medicine. Doesn't work as well, and the weight loss slows down. What can we do then? We can actually stop the drug at that point. Stop it at about 13 weeks. That's the most rapid weight loss. At 13 weeks, stop the medicine altogether. Go on Metformin, which is a commonly used diabetic medicine, also used for pre diabetes. It's also being studied as a longevity drug. And the metformin dose doesn't have to be very high, usually even 850 milligrams just at night.