Why Diet and Exercise Matter Post-Semaglutide

Name: Why Diet and Exercise Matter Post-Semaglutide
Uploaded: 2024-09-11T16:00:02+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok breaks down semaglutide trial results: people lost about 15% of body weight over a year, then regained some after stopping the drug. The…

11 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok breaks down semaglutide trial results: people lost about 15% of body weight over a year, then regained some after stopping the drug. The catch is they went back to their old eating and exercise habits. Keeping up diet and activity changes helps hold onto the loss.

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Weekly injectable for about a little over a year.

About 15% of body weight.

They were told to return to their prior lifestyle of eating more calories and to stop exercise.

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So in the clinical studies for the drug company, they put people on placebo or the semaglutide, injectable weekly for about a little over a year. And people lost about 15% of their body weight. And when they took them off the medication, people that were not on placebo were on the semaglutide, gained some weight back, but not all of it. They kept their weight down. However, they told them, the patients that were in the study group, to go back to their prior lifestyle of eating more calories and stop exercise. So. So what would happen if we told people to stay on the diet or stay in an altered lifestyle and continue to be active? Well, you should expect that weight can stay down.