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It’s not just about gaining weight, I’ve read reports from overseas where 12 months after stopping people still have gastro- paresis. Also a report it may be linked to thyroid cancer. I’m type 2 and around July last year I was put on Tragantamet. I lost 6 kilos in 8 weeks, couldn’t eat, and if I did I couldn’t digest- a mini gastro- paresis. It’s in the same group of GLP-1 drugs, I believe related to Wegovy.

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What do you think of this Julie? Surgeons discourage it's use and I doubt Pharma likes it. Success seems to depend on the individual patient. Some swear by it. Completely self-administered. Available as an ebook. The patient is their own hypnotist. No need for abusive shrinks. No University of North Carolina. No Ralph Baric. No mRNA. No ozempic. No ketamine

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In answer to your question, I believe it has potential. I’m an ex- nurse started training 1971 ( yes I’m an oldie 71) . Around 1975 the hospital I was in was doing jejueno- illegal bypasses.. From a healthy life outcome it was disastrous, I even cared for a patient in a different hospital who died from the procedure. As for the current gastric sleeve surgeries , people may be interviewed by a psychologist, but are not fully informed about the consequences. Lisa Marie Presleys daughter died from complications of gastric surgery. As for the hypnosis, during the 70-80 it was being used to control pain in childbirth- reported at the time as being very successful . I also started working with a psychologist in 2017. Who worked with EMDR and EFT radically different from regular psychology and the alphabet soup of therapies like CBT, RET, DBT etc. in this area some people would probably get good results from EFT- there’s scores of videos on YouTube. Any therapy that doesn’t require medical/ surgical intervention to my mind is always preferable. BTW EMDR sounds like a crock. I first heard about it in 2002, and discounted it. I wish I hadn’t as I suffered PTSD and I only wish I’d found a practitioner skilled in that 30 years ago. Then maybe outcomes in my life may have been different. As for Wegovy, I can’t imagine why anyone in their right mind without diabetes would choose to take it.

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Thanks for your reply Julie. It's good to hear that EMDR is not the crock it sounds like and can help domestic abuse victims. Yes, for non-diabetes sufferers to take Wegovy sounds crazy.

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EMDR can help all victims with forms of PTSD . We have so many veterans committing suicide, first responders suffering, and yes domestic violence victims.

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The Pharmafia will kill you.

They make drugs.

Drugs will kill you.

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I don't know - I don't believe they actually want to 'kill' you......"they" are like a virus: Don't kill the host, the host is needed in order to thrive.

But... keep the host perpetually eff'd up, and the $ will roll in as the host keeps revisiting us at the cashier window for more drugs.

Virus is smart - so is pharma. Why cure? That's a bad business plan.

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Not when the objective is thinning out the herd

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Ahhh....right you are.

So - a bit of both, perhaps 😉

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But, Hunter ...

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I have a good friend who’s always struggling with her weight. Yet refuses to cut out the sugar 🙄 She talked her doc into ozempic. Her side effects were so severe she was bedridden for a month. So not worth it.

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Well, they fattened us up with their lockdowns and fear of going out to gyms or other exercice possibilities. I saw so many people gaining weight after a couple of cov jabz. Doctor tells them it's their fault, that's an easy take. Then we are lulled into eating vegan or insectarian (I'm starting to believe eating carnivore is most likely the best solution to get a thriving lean body but I have yet to go all the way to do so for a good testimony). Tada! appears at last, in the midst of despair, the best panacea (or you can choose gastric bypass): Ozempic!!

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The "long-term studies" - are performed on....... WE THE PEOPLE.

Of course, to be a "study", someone must actually CARE about the results.

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Pharma does offer choices. Ozempic or mRNA. Ozempic or mRNA, what's it to be? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

Subcutaneous delivery of FGF21 mRNA therapy reverses obesity, insulin resistance, and hepatic steatosis in diet-induced obese mice - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2162253122000865

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Sounds as bad as the old fashioned way used by celebrities, i.e., by taking genotropin then sustanon 250 with clenbutetol.

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Had a seriously obese colleague who opted for bariatric surgery, We shared a classroom part of the day, so she kept me up to speed on her situation. Before the surgery she had to commit to losing 90 lb on her own. So she did. And had the surgery. A year later she was larger than she had been before the 90 lb loss. Checking on this, I saw that surgeons performing this operation found that result not infrequently. It looks to me like trying to undo, in a few months to a year, what you took many years to create (obesity). The quick fix. Abdication of personal responsibility, both before and after.

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Death to you all, courtesy of big pharma drugs. The poisons...statins, weight loss drugs, opioids, mRNA gene altering substances, toxic cancer drugs, vaccines, and a thousand others all vying for a space on your death certificate...cause unknown.

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THE NIH, CDC, FDA ARE ALL IN THE POCKETS OF BIG PHARMA, WHEN WE HOLD THE HEADS OF THESE AGENCIES ACCOUNTABLE -THIS TOO WILL END

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