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Precisely, the point of Ozempic (or rather Wegovy, Ozempic is for type-1 diabetes) is that it reduces your appetite, making it easier to eat less. One of the s
by mrweasel 2y ago
Precisely, the point of Ozempic (or rather Wegovy, Ozempic is for type-1 diabetes) is that it reduces your appetite, making it easier to eat less.
One of the studies done with Wegovy showed that people lost 15% of their body mass in a year, but they also eat 500 Calories less and exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
- jnwatson 2y agoWait, Wegovy makes people exercise more?
- crooked-v 2y agoThat's probably counting 'light exercise', aka walking around. That works out to 20 minutes a day, so it could just be the side effect of people being lighter and so walking places being more comfortable.
- mrweasel 2y agoOh, no sorry, the study I read had people on Wegovy, but it also had them exercise 2.5 hours per week at the same time. The point was that the 15% weight lose in a year is in the high end of what you can expect, especially if you change nothing else.
- rblatz 2y agoIt's hard to exercise when you are overweight. It puts more strain on your joints, makes injury more likely, and it's all around harder. Maybe there is a path to using these drugs in a manner to get people healthier so they can exercise more, establish good habits and taper down.
- odo1242 2y agoWeight gain makes it harder to exercise. In any particular day, eating more also makes exercise harder (because it tanks your energy levels). This is especially true if you count light exercise.
- Scoundreller 2y agoBeing full of food also makes it hard to exercise.
- rstupek 2y agoCorrection type-2 diabetes not type-1
- mrweasel 2y agoYes, sorry, I misread when I looked it up. You're correct, it's for type 2.
- Schiendelman 2y agoIt's important to go back and edit your comment so the misinformation is gone.
- mrweasel 2y agoHonestly I disagree, edits are for spelling and wording. It's important to not edit the content of comments, so that follow up comments and their context remain the same.
- _heimdall 2y agoIt'd be more helpful for edits to be appended to a comment, allowing context of the conversation to still make sense. Misinformation is also going to be much overused and meaningless if used for situations like a simple mistake. The commenter just misread something - branding it as misinformation seems to imply intent, otherwise why wouldn't you just call it a mistake?
- opo 2y ago>...Ozempic is for type-1 diabetes At the present time, Ozempic is not approved for Type 1 diabetes: >...Ozempic® is not for use in people with type 1 diabetes. https://www.ozempic.com https://www.ozempic.com Compared with Type 2, with Type 1 diabetes there are other risks that could occur: >...While medications such as GLP-1 receptor agonists (Ozempic, Wegovy) and SGLT-2 inhibitors (Jardiance, Farxiga) demonstrated powerful benefits, they quickly were determined to pose too much of a liability for pharmaceutical companies or regulators due to concerns about safety. Specifically, GLP-1s can increase the risk of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and SGLT-2s can raise the risk of a serious, life-threatening complication called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). https://diatribe.org/diabetes-medications/why-diabetes-miracle-drugs-ozempic-are-limits-type-1s https://diatribe.org/diabetes-medications/why-diabetes-mirac...