The Doctor Who Tried Fat Loss Medications | Dr. Christle Guevarra
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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00:00 Intro
2:08 Her Journey with GLP-1's
12:45 Medical School x Willpower
20:02 Mental Health
28:20 Food Addiction
31:58 Family Medicine x Comparing GLP-1's
40:53 Sports Medicine Fellowship
51:40 Private Practice
1:01:15 Marriage
1:07:48 Body Building Community
1:14:21 Correct Use x Pill Mills
1:22:57 Future
1:24:18 Fatphobia
1:27:32 Health Insurance
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| 0:00.0 | This is the thing that I had struggled with for so long and pretended like I didn't have the willpower. |
| 0:09.8 | I wasn't good enough. |
| 0:11.3 | What's wrong with me? |
| 0:14.1 | In middle school, really started to look at like how I looked and because of the bullying, you know, went on all sorts of weird diets, |
| 0:24.3 | cabbage soup diet, fat-free cottage cheese and saltines at one point. I was dieting on such low |
| 0:30.1 | calories that trying to do homework just seemed really tough. I just remember staring at the same |
| 0:36.1 | paragraph over and over and things weren't happening. |
| 0:39.3 | The amount of appetite drive from my brain has just been so strong for so long. |
| 0:49.3 | When I finally decided to give Wagovi a shot, it was a life-changing experience for me. |
| 0:57.6 | Now I can show up and I can be my best self at work. |
| 1:02.7 | I can be my best self as a spouse and as a friend because now this hunger thing has been removed. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome back to the Checkup podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | These days, so many are quick to over-emphasize the side effects of taking GLP1 medications. |
| 1:18.1 | You hear all sorts of derogatory terms thrown around, Ozempic butt, Ozempic face. |
| 1:23.7 | But like with any medical treatment, we need to discuss the benefits as well as the harms. |
| 1:29.3 | And sometimes those benefits can absolutely be dramatic. |
| 1:33.3 | Today I'll be speaking with Dr. Crystal Guevara, |
| 1:35.3 | a board-certified family and sports medicine physician |
| 1:39.3 | who actually serves as the traveling team physician |
| 1:41.3 | for US figure skating. |
| 1:43.3 | She opens up about how uncontrollable |
| 1:45.1 | food noise absolutely wrecked her health, her relationships, and even her ability to perform well in |
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