Experience: Here’s how to use Ozempic, the injection to lose weight quickly

It’s called “magic weight loss” , because without the need for strict diets and intense exercises, it has the ability to make you lose weight in one go. It is Ozempic one of the weight loss injections that have become fashionable in recent times and whose results are evident even in famous people, like Elon Musk and Oprah.

And indeed, it can change people’s lives.

A report of Deutsche Welle followed the story of Luciano Castro, an adult man who suffered from obesity for several years and even underwent gastric bypass surgery with which he lost 50 kilos. However, Over time, his eating anxiety returned, as did his obesity.

“They operate on your stomach, not your brain” , he began telling the media. “When I’m sad, I comfort myself with food. When I’m stressed, it calms me down. And when I feel good, I treat myself and eat something.

But when he started injecting Ozempic, his life took an unexpected turn: “When I inject the preparation, I don’t think about food for two or three days. Nothing. I find it really incredible, it really works. Thanks to the medication, I can sometimes eat breakfast in the morning and only eat in the evening.

Is Ozempic safe to use? Why is this medicine able to eliminate hunger?

As explained in the DW article, the substance injected by Luciano It helps slow down the emptying of the stomach, that is, it “tricks” the brain into thinking that it has already eaten, so that it is no longer hungry.

Mimics the GLP hormone that our gut releases when we eat to tell the brain that it is full and that we must curb our appetite. And this hormone is altered in obese people, so Ozempic’s job is to “regulate” it.

Initially, the injection – also marketed under the names Wegovy, Saxenda and Victoza – was developed to regulate blood sugar levels in diabetics. Weight loss was a side effect that would have happened by chance and now many people use it, even without being overweight.

However, Doctor Zoltan Pataky, from Geneva University Hospitals warned that “This drug should only be prescribed to patients who are morbidly obese. It is not suitable for losing a few pounds because summer is fast approaching and we want to look good in a swimsuit.”

Lucie Favre, endocrinologist at Lausanne University Hospital : “This involves a risk because the effect of these substances on non-obese people has not yet been studied.”

“There is a growing market, and at the same time we need to train doctors and experts. On the contrary, the product will degenerate into a miracle cure that can be prescribed like aspirin.

Like any medication, it also has side effects: the most common are nausea or diarrhea. However, a few cases of pancreatitis have been recorded.

For this reason, and due to the lack of evidence, doctors recommend the use of this injection only to those who are trying to diet, exercise or even have had surgery, but have not been able to maintain the results, despite the efforts.

Magui, a French woman, lost only 17 kilos after her bypass surgery. The doctor had promised him that there would be 40. With this result, He told her there was nothing more he could do for her and referred her to an endocrinologist, who prescribed Ozempic preparation.

“At first I felt a little nauseous, I didn’t feel well, but nothing serious. I started eating less as the dose increased. After three weeks I got used to it and was no longer nauseous. “I realized that when I ate too much fat, I had to rush to the bathroom. » he said DW.

Continuous: “I started eating a lot healthier and felt good, like magic. I was working, I had a lot to do and the pounds were coming off without me realizing it.

The problem with Ozempic and other weight loss injections is when their use is discontinued: “The side effects can get out of control. As soon as the injections stop, the desire for food may reappear and be even stronger than before.

This is why, with the rise of this drug, Experts have reaffirmed the need to create good habits so as not to depend on a “miracle cure” which, as soon as it is stopped, will cause obesity to reappear.

“It is surprising that today we are talking about this treatment as a preventive measure against obesity, when we know perfectly well that the real solutions are found in our environment. We must protect ourselves from excess calories, particularly among the most vulnerable, namely children. We need to prescribe more physical exercise. “The solution is obvious, but we thought in a completely opposite direction,” concludes endocrinologist Favre.