Ozempic and Mounjaro causing Muscle Loss ???

I would absolutely agree that the GIP And gLP1 could cause muscle loss but if you train eat a lot of protein and vegetables if you desire the vegetables take your creatine you will not lose muscle but you need to get the calories in just the same

According to my scale, I've lost 35# and gained 14# of muscle mass. I am working out 5 days a week and taking Semiglutide.

Eat protein and lift weights. Muscle loss will be minimal.

the idea that a drug that causes sarcopenia will make you live longer is just absurd off the bat.

Yeah. Not true. I do resistance training and make sure I get enough protein and I'm gaining muscle and losing fat.

I'm sorry it's me again. I just like to let you know doc I do not take sugar meds anymore or high blood pressure or cholesterol pills. So my insurance is gladly paying for 100% of this medication high blood pressure medicine was very high and taking this stuff for the rest of my life I am so glad that I might be losing some muscle cuz I can build that up. I don't have to worry about all this medicine to take because I'm fat but I'm not fat I've lost weight. Losing weight in Florida so I will be living little bit longer

I'm so sorry I can't remember the name in a year to two years they're going to have a brand-new shot. Not that bad side effects that we get with these other ones. They're building right now with building for they can make this medication. It's for weight loss so you don't have to have sugar problems in order to get this. I can't wait I use that for maintenance. But Google it the shock coming out in a couple years for weight loss. I had it on the tip of my tongue. Sorry people maybe y'all can Google it up and see I already been researching it😊

I have muscle wasting now. But I'm 60 so.....

So happy. I am entering week 24 and the results have been amazing. On 5mg of Mounjaro and there are doctors out there saying the muscle loss is deadly.

Most people don’t trqck macros so they are likely to be screwing it up or eating way too little

Muscle has fat in it and water and blood?

Great ! the adipokinin mechanism was NewZ to me... i don't like to debate` science but the studies you bring up may or may not be statistically significant. so many factor in muscle growth that have nothing directly to do with diabetes or the deeper iisues in metabolic syndrome...

for me i notice the side effects when eating incorrectly ie ,, negative reinforcement

100% Spot on, 180 # loser here. Gotta preserve at least, or build muscle during meaningful weight loss . 👍

Not true! Just got my six month dexa scan and I actually gained muscle!

I had to stop that drug I lost all my strength my appetite and has caused mental health issues

Best looking doctor ever.

11 pounds of lean body mass lost! You say that like that’s freaking nothing. The only people that you are convincing that this is “nothing are people that don’t monitor their body fat and lean muscle mass and realize how much muscle that would be to lose.

Can you skip weeks? For instance… can you not take it during a hectic month? Or do you have to take it every week?

Mitochondria power house 👍..always good information Dr Mike

Doctor they are all drugs give you temporary effects and without exercise you can't have that even

Just take the expensive drugs that alter your physiology and have side effects, rather than having a little restraint in what you shove into the pie hole.🙄

Really good information

feel like we should wait another 5-10 years to mass perscribe these until we are very sure they dont cause pancreatic canc. thats the worst way to die imo

Maybe you can be more honest about the covid vaccine rather than trying to sell drugs. Kind of suspicious you spewing out videos selling this product all the time.

Doctor/Body builder. wow.

My doctor prescribed me Mounjaro for weight loss back in July of last year before it became this popular for what it is. I’d never taken anything for weight loss before so when my weight got bad enough that my dr recommended it I made sure to fix my eating and kept working out. Granted I did notice I was able to bench less when I started losing weight but i eventually got back to benching what I used to all while still losing. In total I lost 60lbs and I’m finally able to see definition in my arms and chest. My only recommendation is to drink a lot of water and make sure you keep up with protein intake that definitely helped me. I’m currently on my last injection and I’m a bit nervous because everything I hear about Mounjaro is that as soon as you stop it you gain the weight back but I’m hoping that the habits I’ve been able to gain while on it help me maintain.

I feel like doctors are going to be eating their words soon in the "miracle drugs" like ozempic.

So this drug destroys more fat than it does muscle so does this drug also know the different between the heart muscle and a leg muscles I don't think SOOO

The thumbnail pic for this vid....😆😘

I took Mounjaro starting Oct 29 weekly until mid January and started alternating weeks until stopping Mounjaro completely April 14th. I did resistance training (LIIFT4 & LIIFT More), walked 1.8-3.35 miles most days, kept protein at 110-135 grams grams.m. I did much of this to prevent lean mass loss and since the start I have lost 84 pounds. The changes in habits I made continue as over the past month I have lost 13.6 without Mounjaro. These shots can be great to break habits, but don’t waste the time you have it, use it as a help for you to change your habits and wean off for a lifelong healthy you.

Your are so awesome Dr. Mike. And we miss you when you take breaks. Our GOOD Dr. Mike!! ☺️🙏🏼

How do you get this medication??

Unequically with me, I lost a good amount of muscle mass. Also, the loss of fat weight with muscle mass caused me to have angel wings....loose and wringled skin on my arms and my pectoral muscle (I am maile) as well as a great loss of leg size. In my case I lost too much weight too fast. 60lbs in a little over 5 months. I am now off the Ozempic and have been lifting weights to regain my muscle loss. Also, during my time on Ozempic I was on TRT, so the weight loss was not related to a lack of androgens. I had a lot of severe stomach cramps and constipation which aided my not wishing to eat and so I ate one small meal a day. Now I believe if I had to do this again, I would have gone with eating 3 smaller meals a day and a much slower weight loss. What I have done while off Ozempic is...GO BACK ON LOW DOSE OZEMPIC. I gained weight back at almost physiological impossible rates....a pound a day, or a two pounds every three day average. AND I was not overeating. Ozempic has to have either an undisclosed effect on mediator of overall metabolic process e.g. thyroid levels (which goes along with an increase in medullary thyroid cancer) So after about six weeks I started 'micro-dosing' at .17 mg/wk and it helped to me both lose a bit of the weight I had gained but did not cause the side effects which made it impossible to exercise. To be specific, when you have not defalcated in over a week and your intestines are in knots, lifting weights or any type of cardio is almost impossible because YOUR TOO SICK. And finally BTW, I am diabetic and the Ozempic was given me for diabetes. As you know diabetes has its own risk of serious diseases and I don't believe Ozempic should be preferentially prescribed off label for weight loss only.

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I’m glad I lost 90 pounds in the past two years the old fashioned way — without drugs or surgery. I have kept it off. I reversed pre-diabetes, dropping my HbA1c from 6.3 to 5.4 while lowering my fasting triglycerides, insulin and glucose measurements. I limit carbs to 25 grams daily. Consume minimally processed foods, high quality proteins, cruciferous veggies, dark greens, berries, flax, chia seed, cheese, yogurt, eggs and lots of water. I walk more than 15,000 steps daily five days a week. Get as much sleep as I can. There are no side effects and the results are mine to keep.

Michael...you should be ashamed of yourself...using a sexy photo of yourself for the thumbnail. LOL Great video as usual Dr. Mike.

it's not hard to lose more fat than muscle when you're losing weight (note, I'm not saying that unassisted weight loss itself isn't hard). the problem is, if you don't keep that fat off, then you've done yourself a disservice, because now you've regained the fat and have proportionally less lean mass than you had to start with.

I used to like Dr Mike more. He’s really gotten behind these novel drugs as a seemingly miracle drug we’ve all been waiting for. I’m not dismissing it’s benefits but it’s too novel to know the real long term implications as with most “too good to be truths” go, there’s usually a trade off we didn’t foresee.

PLEASE stop talking about these drugs as 'weight los's' drugs. They're not for that! They're for people with a legitimate disease - Type 2 Diabetes. People who do not have T2D should not be using it. The fact that it is being used for simple 'weight loss', is actually making it harder for people who legitimately need it to improve their diabetes control are having increased problems getting it at the pharmacy.

u should invite attila on your show.

Muscle loss is not a good thing, even if proportionately fat loss is greater. The heart is a muscle.

Are Statins bad for your body? What can a doctor prescribe instead?

The 3 tips to maintain and improve lean mass apply regardless. It remains to be seen if these drugs will be used for a lifetime once started. Probably not, therefore without good habits including these 3 tips, the weight will likely be regained once off of the drugs, just like fad diets.

It is absolutely horrible how obvious it is that you were payed by those companies. Freaking horror.

Thank you for the thumbnail!!! 👍

Thank you for sharing!Have an awesome day❤You will probably surrounding by patients-Stay well always!!

Great video, lots of inaccuracies on the internet.

Very helpful information. Thank you, Dr. I read Mounjaro uses artificial hormones. How safe do you surmise Mounjaro is? I worry about cancer since artificial hormones cause breast cancer.