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Name: Sustainable Weight Loss? Try Semaglutide! 👍🙌
Uploaded: 2024-02-03T02:00:02+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: YouTube video excerpt (single-speaker) by Dr. Charles Mok discussing physiological changes after major weight loss. The speaker explains that substantial…

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YouTube video excerpt (single-speaker) by Dr. Charles Mok discussing physiological changes after major weight loss. The speaker explains that substantial weight loss (example: ~100 lb after bariatric surgery/stomach stapling) typically reduces muscle mass proportionally but primarily reduces fat; clinicians monitor lean muscle mass as a percentage of total body weight.

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~100 lb

300 lb (before) and 150 lb (after)

As 'stomach stapling'

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Now, when you are, somebody goes through a major weight loss, let's say they did bariatric surgery. That's where you do a stomach stapling, and they lose £100. They do lose some muscle mass, there's no doubt about that. Because it takes less of a musculoskeletal system to carry around 150 pound person than to carry a 300 pound person. That's just a fact of life. So somebody that is obese has got very thick bones and thick muscles that carry that frame around. And if you lose weight, the muscle mass does decline, but mostly you're losing fat. So this is something that happens. We look at people that go through bariatric surgery or go through weight loss. Typically we look at lean muscle mass as a percentage of their overall weight.