McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Can semaglutide heal (not hurt) your gut?

16 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube video excerpt in which clinician McCall McPherson recounts clinical anecdotes about semaglutide's effects on gut function. The excerpt describes a mid-40s woman who suffered daily bowel incontinence since age five and—according to McPherson—stopped having episodes after her first semaglutide injection two years prior; the speaker presents this as a profound, positive patient outcome among multiple stories.

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She would lose control of her bowels sometimes every day, and had dealt with that since she was five years old. After her first injection of semaglutide two years ago, she has not had an episode again. So for a patient that is a wildly successful woman in her mid-40s who literally struggled with bowel incontinence her entire life, to be able to solve that problem unlocks a whole different era of her life that she has struggled with since childhood. And again, this is one of many stories. It's one of the more profound ones that I've experienced firsthand.