Dr. Charles Mok explains how semaglutide adds roughly 1.7 years of healthy life expectancy for people with diabetes and heart disease. He debunks the myth that the drug causes excessive muscle loss, noting that any muscle lost during weight loss is small compared to fat loss and can be offset with exercise.
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Approximately 1.7 years.
Dr. Charles Mok.
October 21, 2024.
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There's a lot of people shooting at these drugs that are so successful for weight loss, really having a big impact on our society. We even look at studies looking at people that have diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and if they go on semaglutide, it's estimated they add 1.7 years of healthy life expectancy. But one of the common thoughts that's making people fatter or making people lose mostly muscle, Totally false. You do lose muscle mass when you lose weight, typically. Regardless if it's just general weight loss, bariatric surgery, or semaglutide, other drugs, you can counteract that with exercise and potentially gain weight. Gain muscle weight during weight loss. But you don't really worry about the lean muscle loss during semaglutide use because it's not significant compared to the fat loss. You'll be a leaner person at the end.