2597: Before You Take Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro Listen to This!
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Why should you listen before taking GLP-1 medications like Ozempic?
You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Today's episode, look, a lot of people take GLP-1s, but they screw it up. In today's episode, we explain to you how you can prevent muscle loss. So before you take a GLP-1 like Ozempic or Manjaro or Regovi, listen to this episode. This episode is brought to you by a sponsor. See, this is the world's best probiotic. Hands down. Go check them out. Go to seed.com forward slash mind pump. Use the code two five mind pump and get 25% off. Also, because we're doing this episode, we have put out a workout program designed specifically for people on a GLP one. It's called Maps GLP-1, and we're going to put it at 50% off because of this episode.
So if you're interested, go to mapsglp1.com. Use the code 50OFFGLP1 to get 50% off. All right, here comes the show. GLP-1s, Ozempic, Wegovy, Manjaro, they're taking the world by storm. But pause before you take them. Listen to us because 40% in some of the studies of the weight you lose can come from lean body mass, which includes muscle. That is not a good thing. Today, we're going to talk about how you can prevent that from happening and maximize the effects of the GLP-1s and minimize those negative side effects.
The interesting part about this is this is a challenge for all clients that were pursuing fat loss, even if you weren't taking one of these drugs. The only thing that this has really changed, at least for me, from my perspective as a trainer who's helped a bunch of people try and lose weight, is it just guarantees they're not going to eat a lot. One of the challenges when you were helping a client lose with weight loss was getting them to adhere to the diet consistently, consistently enough that they were in a caloric deficit day in and day out so that their body would then basically metabolize fat and lose body fat, right? Well, that's the goal. Right, that would be the goal. But that is challenging enough as it is, and you'd have clients that would be good for a while, then overeat, and then they'd hit plateaus. But with Ozempic, Monjaro, all these GLP-1s, getting the client to restrict from calories is not difficult whatsoever.
But the same challenge is presented as the one that I would have with a client who actually did adhere to eating low calorie without the drug. So it's very similar.
It's interesting. Yeah. Thinking back to like some of my clients, even that... We thought was like a real big success out of the gates. It's like I find out later that they're doing an excessive amount of cardio and not reporting it to me. And, you know, this while like cutting calories like crazy, they're getting they're losing weight. But we get to this place where it's just not sustainable real fast.
Yeah, so I want to be very clear. So first off, the data does show that people who go on a GLP-1 and do nothing else, right, they just take a GLP-1, they lose a significant amount of weight. I mean, there is never in history has there been a medical intervention, non-surgical, that is even in the same ballpark in terms of effectiveness for weight loss. Okay, so nothing comes close.
Do GLP-1 medications cause muscle loss?
Now, the studies also show that when people take a GLP-1 and do nothing else, that up to 40% of the weight that they lose is lean body mass. Now, lean body mass is anything that's not body fat. So some of that's water. We'll get to that. But a significant percentage of that is muscle. And that's a big problem. So let's put a pin in that because we'll get to that as well.
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7 chapters
1
Why should you listen before taking GLP-1 medications like Ozempic?
0:43–4:07
2
Do GLP-1 medications cause muscle loss?
4:07–9:26
3
What is the 'under-muscled' epidemic?
9:26–13:29
4
How do GLP-1 medications work?
13:29–14:47
5
What are the pros and cons of using GLP-1 medications for weight loss?
14:47–20:00
6
How can you prevent muscle loss when taking GLP-1s?
20:00–25:41
7
Why should you consider using a compound pharmacy for GLP-1 medications?
25:41–32:11
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