A breakdown of GLP1 drugs like Ozempic, originally made for diabetes but now used for weight loss. The video covers what actually happens to your body: the weight loss benefits and the side effects, mainly nausea and stomach problems.
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I want you to explain your take on the GLP1 class of drugs. Are they good for you? Are they bad for you? These were classically developed as diabetes medications. Right. And what they found was that they had this specific, as you said, is a peptides that block sort of the GLP1 glucagon stimulation. And that basically allowed people to start researching on their obesity effects. And I think what has been sort of buried and shadowed in all the hype around most of these drugs cause about a 10 to 15% weight loss in about 12 to 18 months time span. Right. Is the side effects. And the most common, if you look up all these New England Journal of Medicine articles around these trials, is, as you said, nausea and GI issues.