Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how skeletal muscle burns sugar and regulates blood glucose. Ozempic can lower blood sugar short-term, but it may cause muscle loss. If you stop the drug after losing muscle, your body loses its ability to control blood sugar effectively.
Muscle is actually a sugar burning organ. And so the amount of muscle you have actually determines how well your body's able to regulate its blood sugar. And so in the short term, Ozempic is helping you regulate your blood sugar, right? But in the long term, if you're losing muscle mass from it and then you go off of it, your body no longer has that ability to regulate its blood sugar effectively, so you gotta be careful with that.
