Our Patients' Experience With Semaglutide

Name: Our Patients' Experience With Semaglutide
Uploaded: 2024-09-10T12:00:48+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok describes a weight-loss program combining semaglutide injections with metformin, a Mediterranean diet, and exercise. Patients lost an…

10 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok describes a weight-loss program combining semaglutide injections with metformin, a Mediterranean diet, and exercise. Patients lost an average of 24 pounds over four months, about 12.5% of body weight, with no regain after stopping the drug.

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24 pounds (average) over four months.

12.5% body weight (average).

Four months.

Weekly injectable semaglutide.

Metformin.

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For maximum weight loss. We're to cycle semaglutide and metformin, mix that with a Mediterranean diet, which is the diet we should be on for weight loss and weight maintenance and of course, increasing activities. We had individuals were that were overweight or obese or extremely obese, and we put them on semaglutide instead of a, instead of a year, just for a few months, and then switch them over to metformin. So this is a four month weight loss project using both semaglutide, the injectable every week, and then switching over to metformin to keep the weight off. So in this group of patients, the average weight loss was 24 pounds in four months. There was no weight gain after removal of semaglutide and there was an average of 12 and a half percent body weight lost.