Maximize Weight Loss with Semaglutide!

Name: Maximize Weight Loss with Semaglutide!
Uploaded: 2024-07-09T18:07:27+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how semaglutide works for weight loss: you start at one-tenth the maintenance dose and ramp up over 20 weeks, when most weight…

9 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how semaglutide works for weight loss: you start at one-tenth the maintenance dose and ramp up over 20 weeks, when most weight loss happens. After that, weight plateaus between weeks 20 and 50 as your body tolerates the dose, raising questions about long-term use and cost.

Questions this video answers

Maintenance dose is roughly 10× the starting dose.

About 20 weeks to reach the maintenance dose.

Most weight loss occurs during the ramp-up period (approximately the first ~20 weeks).

Weight loss pretty much stops between 20 and 50 weeks.

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And semaglutide is found in the drugs known as Wegovy for weight loss and Ozempic for diabetes. I'm talking about specifically for weight loss. So the semaglutide, the way it works is there's a starting dose that is 1, 10 as much milligrams as the maintenance dose and it takes about 20 weeks or so to get to the maintenance dose. Yet most of the weight loss occurs during that ramp up period. This is because the drug has a side effect profile tied to the dosage and there's also a rapid tolerance that that occurs. So after you get to the maintenance dose, typically the no more weight loss occurs and that's somewhere between 20 and 50 weeks that the weight loss pretty much stops. And then there's on maintenance. This leads to the need to take a very expensive medication long term and potentially have side effects associated with the drug at a very high dose. Again, 10 times higher maintenance dose than the initial weight loss dose.