525: Conversation with Danielle Belardo: The Benefits of Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, |
| 0:20.0 | and it's time for a five-minute |
| 0:21.7 | Friday. I am going to bring you up to date on everything bigger, better, and more than |
| 0:27.2 | Ozzympic with my amazing colleague, Dr. Danielle Ballardo. Say hey, Daniel. Hi, Dr. Kay. Hey, |
| 0:33.7 | everyone listening. Well, so Danielle's a cardiologist, and she believes a lot in plant-based nutrition. |
| 0:40.3 | She's been one of the pioneers, I think, in getting everyone in the medical field to understand the medical benefits of Ozempic, Manjaro, Wagovi, all of these weight loss shots. |
| 0:50.9 | You and I did a podcast on Wagovi and weight loss shots so many months ago. |
| 0:55.4 | Like 10 months ago, way before this was trending. Exactly. I feel like we started this trend. |
| 1:01.2 | We did. We did. And so, yeah, and I'm so excited to be here and chat with you, especially because, |
| 1:06.0 | you know, like you and I were just discussing off mic, that there's a lot of misinformation about |
| 1:12.0 | these medications roaming around about there and trying to clear up some of the most recent |
| 1:17.5 | rumors, especially one that people are hearing about muscle mass loss when patients take these |
| 1:23.6 | medications. |
| 1:25.1 | And so first and foremost, you know, as a cardiologist, I was just telling Dr. Kay, one of my favorite things about these medications. And so first and foremost, you know, as a cardiologist, I was just telling Dr. Kay, |
| 1:29.6 | one of my favorite things about these medications, GLP1, receptor agonists, is the class of medications |
| 1:35.2 | we're discussing. These are the medications that are either Ozempic, Wigovie, or Monjaro. You may have |
| 1:40.9 | heard those are the three most well-known. Other ones are things like |
| 1:44.6 | succenda, Laragliteid. But these medications work by slowing gastric emptying in your GI |
| 1:51.0 | track, which means that you get full faster and you stay full for longer. They also work to decrease |
| 1:58.0 | hunger by changing essentially the appetite signaling from the hypothalamus of the brain. |
| 2:04.9 | The reason why as a cardiologist, we love these medications so much is because in every single |
| 2:09.4 | clinical trial, they have shown to reduce cardiovascular risk factors drastically. |
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