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There are no pharmaceutical shortcuts to great health.

"Let food be thy medicine."

-- Hippocrates

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Amen to that Anti Communist!

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If you trust ANY big pharma drug trial or study, you have been living under a rock the last 3 years or even the last 30. All these trials are either incomplete, missing data, presenting massaged data, have all negative results hidden, are problematic in structure, or offer no positive results of any significance. In other word, they are fake.

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Sadly much of it is to one degree or another rigged just like the 2020 election🤬

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As a nutritionist who specializes in fat loss and control of diabetes, I am facing issues with the recent push for ozempic. I don’t like these drugs for reasons of side effects and “weight loss” is up to 40% lean body mass! That’s not good! Yet I also have clients with diabetes prescribed this drug which is helpful for glucose management. My goal is to use real food and balanced nutrition planning to get them off drug therapies, and the recent promotion for weight loss complicates things with everyone believing it a weight loss miracle. I am regularly faced with wonder why there is a constant battle to avoid healthy eating patterns...!

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Sadly people always want a shot cut without addressing thei own behaviours. Over the years I’ve lost count of the numbers of miracle diet.

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Gluttony is a self-control problem. Not a medical problem.

It is solved with will power not drugs.

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Thank you. I have been saying this for years.

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Pills cannot solve real problems.

All pills come with risks.

Fully formed adults need to take responsibility for their lives and not devolve decision making upon any third party/govt agency.

Just like illicit drugs - cocaine, meth, MDMA, crack, LSD - all pills are, is a side-show, and a distraction from real world resolution.

If you are overweight, then stop eating crappy fast foods, endless sugary snacks and salt laden huge meals.

And get off your rear-end and move about - exercise for the love of god.

I cannot understand how obese people fail to understand how they even got there.

Mrs Cohen weighs 150kg.

She goes to see the doctor.

The doctor says:

"So, please tell me about what your diet consists of".

"Well for breakfast I don't really eat much - I have a dozen eggs, scrambled and covered with tomato sauce. Then I have two litres of chocolate milk, half a loaf of low GM rye bread with my favourite starwberry jam and half a brick of butter".

"And for lunch?" asks the doctor.

"Not much really" says Mrs Cohen, "I have four roast chickens, a leg of lamb and two litres of coleslaw all washed it down with one litre of orange juice".

"What about dinner?" asks the doctor.

"Well, for dinner, I like to eat less. So three 300g fillet steaks with barbecue sauce. Four portions of potato chips covered with tomato sauce and all washed down with two litres of Rooibos ice tea. For dessert I have five slabs of Lindt dark chocolate".

"Very well, Mrs Cohen. And how many times a day do you go to the toilet?"

"The toilet, maybe once a week. But, I do eat lots of prunes, to help with the movement you know".

"Ahem, well yes, Mrs Cohen. Please get dressed".

"So what is it doctor. What illness have I got? What's the problem?"

"You see, Mrs Cohen, you have no actual illness per se. The problem, however, is your inlet is way bigger than your outlet".

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Barry, You are so right on the top portion of your post. It started years back when people also starting eating 'no fat' foods not realizing that the fat was replaced with sugar. Nowadays doctors don't want to point out the excess weight either; likely afraid they will be reported for such unkindness lol. People need to start eating real food, cut all the crap and like you say move the body (and not just from the sofa to the fridge).

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Well, wegovy seems to be working well for Chelsea Handler, from the look of her in the Daily Mail article.

Mrs Cohen's diet is remarkably similar to the late Elvis Presley's.

For a snack, Elvis was fond of a chicken sandwich or two. He reportedly would slice a loaf of unsliced bread lengthways down the middle and then place an entire fried chicken between the two half loaves.

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Afternoon ANW,

I was in Memphis in 2009 and visted Graceland.

You weren't allowed to take many photographs, because the flash photography would further deteriorate the furniture, artworks, objet de art etc.

It was not really an ostentatious home at all.

He really loved Priscilla that's for sure.

His collection of cars and the planes at another site was fascinating.

Money can't buy you happiness; celebrity eventually becomes meaningless and you become a whore to the fans who will just not let you get off the ride.

Anthony Bourdain seemed so sane before he topped himself.

Apparently the last call made was to his ex-wife, where he told her couldn't handle his success any more.

I'd rather be a sort of happy, healthy and partially sane big nothing.

Happy Monday to you : ))

Barry

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I fully agree

Happy Monday to you too Barry!

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When I was nursing early 70’s I worked in a unit where they were pioneered jejuneo - ileal bypass. This description isn’t far from the truth.

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Hi Julie,

All tragi-comedy has foundations in truth.

Have a lovely Monday.

Best

Barry

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There's also a new mRNA-LNP jab for obesity under development. Happy days are here. Be a good looking cadaver. Reminds me of a study of protein supplements and resistance training in rats. The rats given protein supplements looked beautiful. Sleek coats, lean muscle. So much better looking than the rats in the comparison group who got no supplements or exercise. Beautiful looking animals. And they dropped like flies. Very pretty dead animals.

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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In this linked study, it looks likey killed the rats at the end of the 2-week treatment period to study their livers. Not to worry; I'm sure there wouldn't have been any long-term effects. 🤪

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looks likey = looks like they

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I was at the gym last week and on the wall of tvs there was one in front of my machine that had dr

Phil ( non doctor of anything) whose show was about this drug. The actors and rich are buying up the brand named version and the obese are only afforded the generic brand and having catastrophic health issues. Everyone is trying to Cheat their way to looking like a movie star or social media influencer. Turn it off. Limit carbs and calories and get exercise. Pills and tricks are short lived and not healthy.

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And sugar and processed crap.

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I don't doubt that wegovy may have its issues but did researchers control for the effects of the clot shot? Bowel problems following the clot shot are not exactly unheard of. The paper at the link below reports on a case of acute diverticulitis and colon micro-perforation in a young adult following a booster of the clot shot.

Gastrointestinal Complications of COVID-19 Vaccines

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9097558/

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Thank for the compliment. BTW that particular surgery had long term poor outcomes and health complications. I wouldn’t recommend it for the “over active” gland under the nose. It’s also common for obese people to claim overactive glands. 😊

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Strange how this drug can be used for off-label yet IVERMECTIN could not be used for off-label.

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After reading and agreeing with most of the comments here (if not all), the other problem is that when someone goes to their doctor for help - the doctor doesn't really help them with this. Doctors get a small number of hours in med school about nutrition but what they get a lot of is how to prescribe drugs and that is usually what is offered, sadly. So what do people do, take these drugs. The other leg of this is a lot of people want an easy fix to everything in life and this is just one of those traps they fall for.

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What no one has mentioned is that actual food addiction is a thing for the obese. They eat so much they get a dopamine high and becoming addicted to that just like drugs.

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Sounds like an excuse to me.

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Remember the late 60’s early 70’samphetamines “ mother ‘s little helper “ was sold as safe and effective .

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Wouldn’t even consider anything from big pharmaceutical. Haven’t we learned from them rolling out the clot shot ?

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My guess Wegovy will be withdrawn from the market like many other anti-obesity medications in the past.

For more details on Wegovy, you can check my article at https://rcmprinciples.com/how-not-to-tackle-obesity-wegovy-etc.

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the real sad part is that now due to excessive over use, medi spas having staff to write scripts, and people paying them cash..... there is a shortage and individuals who need it for diabetes can't get refills

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