Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and in this episode, we are going to be talking about weight loss medications.

And this is a topic that I have gotten lots of questions about recently.

And this is something that I haven't discussed much because I am not an expert in this topic.

I focus on nutrition.

And those of you who listen to the show know that I value expertise.

So I brought my friend onto the show today, Dr. Nisha Patel, who is an internal medicine

and obesity medicine physician.

She's the director of the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and weight management

program at California Pacific Medical Center.

And she's someone who I connected with a few years back who really

emphasizes the importance of nutrition and lifestyle in overall health. So we have very

closely aligning philosophies here, but she's someone who regularly prescribes these

medications to her patients. She's monitoring them. She's following up with them.

And she's reading the research on these medications as well.

So I brought her on to the show today to share her knowledge and experience with using these medications to tell us what they do, how they work.

We're also going to talk about some of the medications that many of you may not even be

aware of. So everyone knows about the Wagovi and the Ozympic and the Mojaro and the new GLP1 agonists is what

they're called, these long-acting gLP1 agonists. Many people have heard of those because

those have become more popular recently. But there's other medications that are also used for weight management

that we're going to discuss,

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