Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about the weight loss drug that you may or may not have heard about.

I feel like I'm hearing about it everywhere. Simagluptide.

It was Embic or Ragovey, there's different brand names for the same drug.

And I wanted to bring an endocrinologist on the podcast to educate about this.

So today's episode is with Dr. Arthi Thungadu.

This is the second time she's been on the podcast.

The first time was episode number 92,

which was also a really great episode.

We're talking about hormone balance.

So she's back today to talk about the weight loss drug

that's growing in popularity and I

seem to hear about it everywhere all over social media I feel like everyone's

talking about it and I wanted her to come on the podcast because I think it's

important to get quality information about these things.

Because this is the type of thing that gets blown up on social media and who knows what kind of information is swirling around about it.

I also want to call attention to it because I think you're likely

going to start seeing people rapidly losing weight and potentially trying to use

that rapid weight loss to sell you on whatever they're selling a fitness program, a supplement, whatever.

Remember that if someone is rapidly losing weight it's because they have drastically

changed their diet. It generally has nothing to do with their fitness program. It's because they're able to be in and sustain a calorie deficit,

not because they're doing some special fitness program

that then you should go by.

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