Good Diet Enhances Metformin & Semaglutide Effects

Name: Good Diet Enhances Metformin & Semaglutide Effects
Uploaded: 2024-06-17T12:00:35+00:00
Duration: 25 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short advisory clip from Dr. Charles Mok (YouTube, 2024-06-17) discussing combined use of semaglutide and metformin for weight management. The speaker…

17 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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Short advisory clip from Dr. Charles Mok (YouTube, 2024-06-17) discussing combined use of semaglutide and metformin for weight management. The speaker says patients who tolerate semaglutide will generally tolerate metformin, some patients stop metformin after achieving weight loss due to lasting habit changes (e.g., adopting a Mediterranean diet), while others may require recurring treatment cycles (e.g., two cycles per year) instead of continuous high-dose weekly therapy.

But typically, if you can tolerate the semaglutide when you come off it, you can tolerate the Metformin just fine. You go back on semaglutide, you can stay on the metformin if you want to. Some of our clients have decided not to continue Metformin because they got their weight off and they made it. It was long enough period of time where their habits changed and their desires for food that they picked change. You know, they went to a Mediterranean diet and watched it. There's other people that are going to need to do this probably two cycles a year for the rest of their life, versus taking the highest dose every week for the rest of your life.