People typically report losing 15-20% of their body weight on semaglutide (like Ozempic/Wegovy) or even more on tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) over a period of 6-18 months
Ethics approval Ethics approval was issued by the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Calgary (REB24827, REB15-1270, REB19-0402, and REB 20-1534) and the study was performed under accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki
Does it really work
When the body is exposed to environmental toxins, UV radiation, and other stressors, it can lead to an overproduction of free radicals, causing oxidative stress
they also support fat oxidation and may improve insulin sensitivity
I want to say, [clears throat] fundamentally, what GLP-1s had to do, because the body positivity movement had been so successful at dismantling diet culture, is they had to fundamentally say, "We're not diet culture." This is where all this co-optation of weight stigma language