Dr. Rhonda Patrick

I had to cut calories.

That was the main thing I had to do, even though I was doing high intensity exercise, all that stuff.

Calorie cutting is the number one way that you can actually lose visceral fat and ultimately lose weight.

And essentially the GLP-1

you know, receptor agonists, these drugs that are Ozembic and all the other next generation ones are essentially doing that.

You're causing yourself to be satiated, right?

So it's essentially doing what intermittent fasting is doing, but it's also doing other things.

It's slowing gastric emptying, right?

So you're basically the food sitting around in your intestines longer, which... It sits there longer.

So the...

GLP-1 receptor agonist, lycozembic, so semaglutide, they're slowing what's called gastric emptying.

So the food takes long.

It stays in your intestines longer, which is part of why you're satiated.

There's a lot of, of course, side effects.

But intermittent fasting, basically, you can also lose weight.

And also reset your hormones.

You can lose visceral fat.

When I say reset your hormones, I mean so that you're satiated after a meal, so that you're not feeling hungry immediately after you ate because the visceral fat does start to lose.

It's the first thing that's lost.

In fact, many studies have shown that.