Nearly 42% of American women and men over the age of 20 are obese, and 10% are severely obese. You’re considered to be obese if your body mass index (BMI) is 30 or higher. You’re severely obese if your BMI is 40 or more.
Aside from the aesthetics of a body that has proportionately more fatty tissue than lean muscle tissue, obesity, and severe obesity come with severe health risks. If you’re obese or severely obese, you’re at far greater risk for serious health conditions and diseases, including:
Unfortunately, the standard advice to eat less and exercise more doesn’t work for many people, especially over the long term. Calorie restriction triggers a starvation response in the body, which causes weight gain after returning to normal eating patterns.
That’s why the discovery that Semaglutide — a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) that was developed to control blood sugar in diabetics – also reduces obesity and has rocked the world.
How and why does Semaglutide help you lose weight? Here’s the rundown.
When consuming an overabundance of sugar and simple carbohydrates, the body will respond by spiking blood sugar levels that create inflammation and dysregulation in your body.
Semaglutide helps your pancreas to produce more insulin, a hormone that transports glucose (i.e., sugar) from your bloodstream into your cells, where it’s converted to energy.
When you don’t have enough insulin, or if your body becomes resistant to insulin, you may develop Type 2 diabetes. Or you could already be prediabetic, which means there’s more glucose in your bloodstream than is normal or healthy.
While changing your diet to avoid sugars and simple carbohydrates is still important, Semaglutide helps to normalize blood sugar levels. When your body uses glucose to energize your cells, you feel more energized.
One of the most difficult aspects of traditional calorie-restriction diets — and one reason they don’t work — is trying to make do with significantly less food than usual. Reducing your calories makes you feel deprived and constantly hungry.
But weekly self-injections with compounded Semaglutide help curb cravings and can reduce the feeling of hunger by slowing the release of glucose into your bloodstream after you eat. That, in turn, slows your digestion, which leads to greater feelings of satiety. Food stays in your stomach longer, so you can eat less and still feel full and satisfied.
Semaglutide isn’t a miracle cure. It’s a helpful tool for accelerating weight loss while promoting satiety. With or without Semaglutide, a whole-foods diet is crucial for health, as is giving your body the exercise it needs to stay healthy and strong. Continuing to eat fatty, greasy, sugary, and carb-filled foods will increase your weight gain, curbing the benefits of Semaglutide.
The good news: It’s easier to make these changes when on Semaglutide because the drug reduces cravings for sugar that might otherwise sabotage your efforts.
It is important to gradually increase your activity level to meet the needs of your changing body. As your body sheds excess fatty tissue, resistance training, and other exercises help you build better-quality muscle tissue. Muscles keep your body and bones stronger and safer. They also turn up your metabolism so you burn fat for energy more easily.
If you’ve kept up with health and wellness news in the past decades, you’re probably familiar with the discovery that inflammation underlies just about every disease, from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease to atherosclerosis.
New research suggests that Semaglutide reduces inflammatory cytokine levels and modifies immune system activity to reduce those risks. In addition, some Semaglutide users report that it’s easier to quit cigarettes. They even have reduced alcohol cravings.
Before we can approve you for Semaglutide, our team will need to rule out any underlying health conditions or pre-dispositions that will restrict you from this treatment. This will require a consultation with Dr. Lee and particular labs to receive approval for the prescription.
Once approved, the process to receive your medication is quick, easy and efficient. When our partner pharmacy receives your order and fills the medication, your medication is then sent with priority overnight shipping right to your doorstep. This means you can skip the lines, and begin treatment in the comfort of your home.
Our team will support you both before and during your Semaglutide treatment. We follow up with our clients regularly to assist in medication refills and track weight loss progress.
Are you ready to lose extra weight while improving your overall health? Phone our office today at 916-888-8988, or use our online appointment request form to find out if you’re a candidate for Semaglutide.
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