Tips and Tricks for Semaglutide, Ozempic and Wegovy
Hi, I am Dr. Craig Primack, and today I'm coming to you from Scottsdale Weight Loss Center. It has been quite some time since I've done a medical minute. Today, I'm going to talk about one of my favorite current weight loss drugs. Now over the last six months, year, maybe year and a half, I've used this drug a lot.
Background
Before I even get into details, I will tell you that there is no one weight loss drug for everybody. We've built up a lot of experience using weight loss drugs…
Hi. I'm Dr. Craig Primack from Scottsdale Weight Loss.
I'm very excited today to introduce a new drug called wegovy.
Wegovy is coming out I hope this week and will be available to anyone who qualifies. Currently the FDA has qualification measures where you should have a BMI of at least 30 or 27 with other risk factors.
What is Wegovy?
Wegovy is semaglutide but up to 2.4 milligrams. Many of you have seen the commercials for a related drug called Ozempic. Well, this is a higher dose now indicated specifically for weight loss.
The drug is a form of a hormone called GLP-1.…
The Best Weight Loss Drug Semaglutide 2.4
Hi, welcome. I'm Dr. Craig Primack, and I'm really excited today to bring you another medical minute. Today's medical minute is about a new weight loss drug that will at some point be coming to the market, Semaglutide or SEMA 2.4. I'm just going to call it SEMA 2.4 until we have a new name.
What is Semaglutide?
So what is Semaglutide? Semaglutide is a hormone, which is related to GLP-1. We all have GLP-1. In each of us, it lasts for about two minutes. So it's a hormone as food comes through our…
Hi and welcome to another Medical Minute.
Today, I'm going back to talk about anti-obesity medications or weight loss drugs.
Saxenda
The one I have the pleasure of talking about today is called Saxenda, a GLP-1 drug for chronic weight management.
Saxenda came out in 2015 and has been a really good drug for the patients that I've prescribed it for since then. It is Saxenda, a GLP-1 drug for Chronic Weight Management and a unique one. It is patterned after a hormone that you and I already have called GLP-1.
GLP-1, we have from our small intestine, a part called the ilium. In…