Have you ever wondered if there are more natural ways to lower your high blood pressure,

guard against Alzheimer's, lose weight, feel better?

Well, it turns out there is.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we try to answer the question, do the benefits of OZMPIC outweigh the risks?

Even the drug manufacturers of OZMPIC and similar weight-loss drugs cop to the long risk

of potentially serious side effects.

The absolute risks, though, for serious issues like pancreatitis, thyroid cancer, bowel obstruction,

were all about 1% or less per year of using

GOP1-tri-drugs. Of course, when millions of people are on these drugs, even relatively rare

side effects will occur in a large number of people, but you know what else can have

serious side effects? Obesity. In fact, one potential side effect of GOP1 drugs is that they

can be too effective,

risking excessive weight loss.

Any discussion of risks versus benefits has to take any benefits of the

weight loss itself into account.

Excess body fat is a major risk fact for metabolic diseases involving nearly every organ in our

body, such as type 2 diabetes, heart

disease, stroke, dementia, liver disease, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, infertility,

several cancers, including breast cancer and colon cancer, even psychiatric disorders.

Consider the overall health outcomes of those undergoing bariatric surgery, which is not exactly

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