622: Semaglutide Uses Outside of Weight Loss?
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
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🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, |
| 0:05.3 | and it's time for a five-minute Friday. Today, let's talk about one of my favorite topics. |
| 0:11.1 | It's semi-glutide shots, and what are the new miraculous things that we are learning about the power of |
| 0:17.7 | these shots to not only give you weight loss, but potentially improve reproductive, |
| 0:24.3 | fertility issues, neurologic issues. This is amazing. Let's talk about breakthrough treatments and |
| 0:31.3 | new possibilities for semi-glutides. Now, you know that I'm a huge fan of semaglutides. I feel like we talked about it first a year ago, more than a year ago on this podcast with Dr. Danielle Bellardo, who's been one of the weight loss pioneers. I am definitely someone who's a fan and a believer. I've lost a good 25 pounds with some glutite shots. I did Wagovi. |
| 0:56.1 | You might have heard of other ones. Monjaro is excellent. Trizepotite is excellent. And sometimes |
| 1:02.0 | metabolic changes just cannot be conquered with dietary restrictions alone, exercise alone. |
| 1:09.0 | Those of you who can do it on your own, great. Those of you who need help |
| 1:12.8 | and assistance, guess what? When metabolic changes happen, perimenopause happens, that visceral |
| 1:17.8 | fat around the organs, the centripetal body fat that turns you from an hourglass into a rectangle, |
| 1:25.2 | there are things you can do. And OZempic is revolutionary. The whole world was |
| 1:30.3 | talking about it, primarily for use in diabetes, and then it was discovered to shed excess body |
| 1:35.9 | fat so amazingly. The GLP1 medications, that's glucagon like peptide one receptor agonists that's a mouthful glpc1 |
| 1:48.7 | glucocon like peptide one receptor agonists these are molecules that are going to improve weight |
| 1:56.4 | loss for sure diabetic function for sure secretion of of insulin, regulation of blood sugar. But guess what? |
| 2:04.6 | GLP-1 medications now are proposed and reported to potentially benefit hormone disorders like polycystic |
| 2:12.8 | ovarian syndrome, cognitive disorders like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and even multiple sclerosis. |
| 2:19.3 | We are noticing clinically in so many fields that the GLP1 agonists have multiple, multiple benefits. |
| 2:27.3 | OZMPIC's popularity is showing no signs of slowing down. It's going to continue to dominate the weight loss industry in |
| 2:34.3 | 2024 and growth in sales is increased by 23% from 2023 to 24 and now has reached up to 12.5 billion |
| 2:43.5 | dollars. Guess what? By 2030 this market's going to hit 100 billion dollars. So if you're in the |
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