Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen

I've seen people's lives change. I've seen more acceptance to the medication. The drugs are becoming safer, less side effects. I like to compare them with the iPhone. We have different versions of the iPhone, right? We have the iPhone 1, the iPhone 10, and now we have the iPhone 16. Same is happening with this class of drugs. Their versions are newer, safer, less side effects, and more effective.

I've seen people's lives change. I've seen more acceptance to the medication. The drugs are becoming safer, less side effects. I like to compare them with the iPhone. We have different versions of the iPhone, right? We have the iPhone 1, the iPhone 10, and now we have the iPhone 16. Same is happening with this class of drugs. Their versions are newer, safer, less side effects, and more effective.

I've seen people's lives change. I've seen more acceptance to the medication. The drugs are becoming safer, less side effects. I like to compare them with the iPhone. We have different versions of the iPhone, right? We have the iPhone 1, the iPhone 10, and now we have the iPhone 16. Same is happening with this class of drugs. Their versions are newer, safer, less side effects, and more effective.

Okay. So I feel like people are getting the message one or accepting the message that obesity is a disease. They feel like giving up. For many patients, I'm the last stop of the journey. And when I talk about a journey, I'm talking decades of journey. I'm talking about doing diets that I've never even heard about. I always learn about a new diet from my patients.

Okay. So I feel like people are getting the message one or accepting the message that obesity is a disease. They feel like giving up. For many patients, I'm the last stop of the journey. And when I talk about a journey, I'm talking decades of journey. I'm talking about doing diets that I've never even heard about. I always learn about a new diet from my patients.

Okay. So I feel like people are getting the message one or accepting the message that obesity is a disease. They feel like giving up. For many patients, I'm the last stop of the journey. And when I talk about a journey, I'm talking decades of journey. I'm talking about doing diets that I've never even heard about. I always learn about a new diet from my patients.

being with nutritionists, being in fat camps that they call them. So I've seen patients struggle through their life and how this medication are changing their lives and giving them their life back, basically.

being with nutritionists, being in fat camps that they call them. So I've seen patients struggle through their life and how this medication are changing their lives and giving them their life back, basically.

being with nutritionists, being in fat camps that they call them. So I've seen patients struggle through their life and how this medication are changing their lives and giving them their life back, basically.

First of all, the initial versions of this drug, they cause more side effects. And they were more cumbersome for somebody. People had to inject themselves twice a day, every day. So even for many patients with type 2 diabetes, it was hard to accept because patients with diabetes... They think and feel that once they're on insulin, they're failed, right? Or it's just more severe.

First of all, the initial versions of this drug, they cause more side effects. And they were more cumbersome for somebody. People had to inject themselves twice a day, every day. So even for many patients with type 2 diabetes, it was hard to accept because patients with diabetes... They think and feel that once they're on insulin, they're failed, right? Or it's just more severe.

First of all, the initial versions of this drug, they cause more side effects. And they were more cumbersome for somebody. People had to inject themselves twice a day, every day. So even for many patients with type 2 diabetes, it was hard to accept because patients with diabetes... They think and feel that once they're on insulin, they're failed, right? Or it's just more severe.

So having a medication that is injectable, it was hard to dissociate them with insulin. Got it. Or with failure.

So having a medication that is injectable, it was hard to dissociate them with insulin. Got it. Or with failure.

So having a medication that is injectable, it was hard to dissociate them with insulin. Got it. Or with failure.

So patients didn't like to inject themselves. And it was a twice a day injection and there were a lot of nausea. So it was harder to tolerate back then.

So patients didn't like to inject themselves. And it was a twice a day injection and there were a lot of nausea. So it was harder to tolerate back then.

So patients didn't like to inject themselves. And it was a twice a day injection and there were a lot of nausea. So it was harder to tolerate back then.

It stimulates your pancreas to make more insulin when your sugar goes above normal. But if somebody who doesn't have diabetes and their glucose is normal, it doesn't touch the pancreas. Interesting.

It stimulates your pancreas to make more insulin when your sugar goes above normal. But if somebody who doesn't have diabetes and their glucose is normal, it doesn't touch the pancreas. Interesting.