Semaglutide for Lean Muscle

Name: Semaglutide for Lean Muscle
Uploaded: 2024-05-14T12:00:41+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Single-speaker YouTube excerpt (Dr. Charles Mok) addressing circulating claims that semaglutide (GLP-1 agonists such as Wegovy/Ozempic) cause loss of…

14 May 2024 · 1 min

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Single-speaker YouTube excerpt (Dr. Charles Mok) addressing circulating claims that semaglutide (GLP-1 agonists such as Wegovy/Ozempic) cause loss of lean muscle mass. The speaker notes that major trials reported ~15–17% body-weight loss over a year but did not comprehensively measure lean body mass, and that body-composition tools (DEXA, ultrasound, bioelectrical impedance) are the accepted methods for distinguishing fat vs. muscle loss. The speaker frames some of the claims as rumors spread by experts and community physicians.

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So I want to talk about something I've been hearing about lately. A lot of people talking about semaglutide or semaglutide, however you want to pronounce it, which is the GLP1 agonist wegoviozempic causing lean muscle mass. Okay. And I'm hearing this a lot from so called experts, people in community physicians even spreading beyond experts and people are spreading the rumor that this is causing lean muscle mass which is something you want to preserve muscles, bones, other tissues and not causing fat loss. We know the study showed that people lose about 15 to 17% of their body weight over a year. In that major study they got FDA approval. They didn't really look at lean body mass. So this has been studied with something called dexa. Dexa, which is a type of x ray machine that determines how much fat you have in your body and how much lean muscle mass as well as ultrasound and impedance. These are ways that are considered gold standard to see if somebody's losing fat or muscle.