This video discusses GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy, which are popular weight loss drugs. The speaker explains their benefits, such as improving insulin sensitivity and reducing appetite, but also highlights concerns like muscle loss, digestive issues, and potential mental health effects. She also shares ten natural ways to boost your body's own GLP-1 production and improve overall metabolic health, whether you're using medication or not.
Key Takeaways
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GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy are peptides, which are small pieces of protein, and are becoming a huge market for weight loss.
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The main benefits of GLP-1 agonists include improved insulin sensitivity, reduced appetite leading to weight loss, and potential neuroprotective effects for conditions like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
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GLP-1 agonists may also have anti-inflammatory effects and a potential role in treating autoimmune diseases and even some cancers.
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A significant concern with GLP-1 agonists is that up to 40% of weight loss can come from muscle loss, which is crucial for longevity and metabolism.
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Common side effects include severe gastrointestinal issues like constipation, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, as well as potential negative impacts on mental and emotional wellness, including anxiety and depression.
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Users of GLP-1 agonists often experience nutrient deficiencies, especially needing more protein and B vitamins, due to reduced appetite and changes in digestion.
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To mitigate side effects while on GLP-1 medication, focus on preserving muscle through high protein intake and strength training, and support gut motility with things like ginger, artichoke capsules, and magnesium citrate.
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Natural ways to boost your body's own GLP-1 production include intermittent fasting, regular exercise, consuming protein-rich meals, and increasing fiber intake.
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Healthy fats, coffee, specific supplements like Kell-Kurb and Berberine, and various spices like curcumin and cinnamon can also support natural GLP-1 production.
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Incorporating a GLP-1 specific probiotic, managing stress, and getting adequate quality sleep are also vital for enhancing your body's GLP-1 and overall metabolic health.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition we look at
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what is new in research what's hot in
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the news or any topic that can help us
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lose weight feel great and live longer
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better usually all three will go
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together but not necessarily so today
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I'm going to talk about one of the
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biggest Health topics sweeping the
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nation the skyrocketing use of peptides
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like glp1 Agonist
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you've heard them it's OIC wovi manaro
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they are projecting 70 billion dollar in
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sales in this year 2025 and I think it
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stands to overshoot that since the
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pharmaceutical companies are also
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targeting the Pediatric Market a little
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background in peptides is peptides are
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just pieces of protein amino acids make
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up proteins when they break down they're
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they go into Arginine and lysine and all
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of those peptides or all of those amino
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acids and those amino acids form chains
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now
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glp1 is about 30 amino acids long we've
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used peptides for life-saving health
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treatments for a long time for instance
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insulin is a 51 chain peptide but these
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gop1 and drugs have taken center stage
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in the weight loss conversation filling
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headlines dominating social media and
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making their way into millions of
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prescription it seems like everybody
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knows somebody who's on them or maybe
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you're considering it and I get it we
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are in the midst of a Health crisis
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obesity diabetes and metabolic
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dysfunction there alltime highs people
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are desperate for Solutions and the
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promise of almost effortless weight loss
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without Lifestyle Changes sounds like a
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dream come true but as someone who has
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spent five decades really my adult my
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entire adult life studying teaching and
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trying to live the principles of real
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health I know when something seems too
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good to be true there's usually a catch
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that comes back sooner or later to bite
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you in the hind in so today I want to
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give you a fuller picture The Good the
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Bad and most importantly The Better Way
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Forward because this is not just about
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weight loss this is about metabolic
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Health long-term vitality and ensuring
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that we're not just trading one set of
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problems for another yes it is great to
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lose that extra poundage and there are
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so many quick short-term health benefits
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but we don't want to do that at the
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expense of your long-term
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Health this morning I'm going to break
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it down into four of the biggest glp
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Agonist benefits because there are some
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undeniable UPS sets but then I'm also
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going to shine the light on four
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concerns that are kind of being
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overlooked in the rush to prescribe the
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easy fix and then I'm going to focus on
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the real solution how we can naturally
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support our own glp production enhance
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metabolic health and even mitigate I'm
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going to give you some tools to even
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mitigate the side effects for those who
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choose to use these medicines you might
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want to get a pencil on paper out
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because I'm going to give you 10 proven
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ways to balance your glp1 and ultimately
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get those Cravings under control whether
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you're on the meds or whether you're
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doing it on your own I'm going to give
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you the tools because let me tell you
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something your body is designed to heal
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it's it's really designed to function
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optimally when given the right inputs
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it's the most powerful Pharmacy in the
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world and it's not at your local
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drugstore it's inside you your body
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produces glp1 peptides in the digestive
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tract but also in the brain and you
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naturally get a little bump with its
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production when you eat especially
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certain foods that I'm going to tell you
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about later and that little bump lasts
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for a while between meals so you're just
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not hungry until it's time for the next
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meal
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this glp1 slows the emptying of the
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stomach and the digestive tract so
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that's where some potential problems
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come into play when the injection keeps
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it artificially high for an entire
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week so you're if you're ready for an
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eye-opening science-backed empowering
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discussion for what's really going on
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with The glp1 Agonist and how you can
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harness your own body's wisdom to
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achieve lasting Health let's just dive
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in together so the four biggest benefits
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first and foremost number one improved
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insulin
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sensitivity these benefits are
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ultimately linked to getting insulin
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resistance in check so that's you know
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problems with heart disease blood
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pressure fatty liver lipid disord stroke
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kidney disease man that's my wheelhouse
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you know that insulin resistance is the
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devil metabolic disorders are at the
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Crux of what's calling causing all the
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chronic disease that is destroying the
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health of
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Americans and this little peptide is a
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good little boost in this area second
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thing what it's most known for is its
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appetite reducing effect so it helps
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people who struggle with food noise you
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know always thinking about food you know
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it helps them get the appetite under
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control almost
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effortlessly so the byproduct is weight
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loss blood sugar control and control of
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Eating
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Disorders now this is where it's
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starting to get interesting as far as
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I'm concerned number
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three it's proving to also have
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anti-inflammatory and protective effects
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on the milin sheath of the
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neurons they're using it in Ms it may
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regulate the immune cells in the brain
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when I was at my favorite conference in
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New York two weeks ago you know I only
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got to sit in on one cuz I got called
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back for the new baby but Dr David
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pearlmutter oh my gosh he was talking
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about this promising you use of the
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gp1s it can if what we're finding out is
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true it can play a neuroprotective
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effect in the
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brain just think about the potential
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benefits when it comes to Parkinson's
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Alzheimer's and Ms you know I'm looking
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at some of this research even on adult
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onset epilepsy where it reduced seizures
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by
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24% then there's even some research on
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on use in poststroke recoveries because
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of its
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anti-inflammatory effects you know it's
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helping to
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reprogram the G cells okay they're in
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the brain only in the brain and they're
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the ones that can be good or you know
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they can kind of switch on to be like
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their alter ego Dr Jackal and Mr hide
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okay gal cells can do that so it can
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reprogram them into the good on so that
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they don't damage the surrounding cells
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I mean this is pretty amazing
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stuff another area number four but I
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think this is really fascinating too its
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effect on
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autoimmunity Lupus rheumatoid arthritis
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ulcer of colitis Crohn's disease
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bronchial asthma even some Cancers and I
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think that goes back to insulin
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resistance but anyway I know some
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practitioners who are micro dosing
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glp1 just a teeny tiny a smidge so
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there's virtually no side effects but
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it's triggering what needs to happen I
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think this is where
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ultimately the prescriptions are going
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to go while we're figuring out all the
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right medication dose there are so many
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doctors out there that are finding
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benefits in tiny tiny doses that are
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getting big big results
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so it is undeniable there are some real
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benefits my question is however why
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aren't the receptors working like they
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should why do we need more you know I'm
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always asking questions I want to get to
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the root cause yeah we can get
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short-term benefits but I truly believe
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that we need to get down to why that
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receptor is breaking down why is it
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working right I think it comes down to
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the ultra processed foods that contain
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so many chemicals that the body just
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gets toxic you know those receptors get
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plugged up whether if it's with heavy
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metals because we know that's how heavy
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metals work maybe toxins of other way of
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other types do that too you know we need
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to do more research we have
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environmental toxins in our air our
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water our food household chemicals and
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our personal care products yeah maybe
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this is why we're so sick I think so
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okay so now let's look at the four
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downsides okay first one up to 40% of
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weight loss with these glp1 agonists
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come from muscle loss and that is not
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something to ignore muscle is the number
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one indicator of
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longevity and as we get older it's
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harder and harder to make Muscle so if
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you lost 100 lbs 60 of it may be fat but
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40 is
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muscle and muscle makes so many good
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compounds that we need my favorite one
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is bdnf brain derived neurotrophic
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Factor it preserves and nourishes and
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and gets that those brain cells and
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neurons firing keeping you sharp muscles
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keep us from becoming frail in our older
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years Frailty is falling breaking hips
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losing your Independence and needing
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help to dress and bathe and feed
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ourselves muscles are levity muscles are
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youth we want to keep muscle we don't
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want to lose it and maybe the worst part
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of losing muscle is when you get off the
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glp1 medicine You've Lost Your metabolic
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Edge muscle muscle's what burns calories
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you know so if you lose that
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weight what's going to happen within the
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year you're going to have all of that
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weight plus an added
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20% because you have destroyed your
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metabolism you know I also have to kind
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of throw in the Cosmetic observation of
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looking gaunt and Haggard because you
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lose the subc fat that's in the cheeks
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in your face and the cheeks you sit on
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you know so you've got the muscle loss
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you got increased wrinkles sagging skin
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and Hollow that's not a healthy look
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okay that's just number one number two
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GI side effects this is probably why
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most people go have to go off of the med
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because you got the slowing down like
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extreme slowing down of gastric motility
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that's where everything moves you know
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the whole digestive system slows down so
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you get constipation nausea vomiting
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diarrhea and a significant loss of
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appetite associated with nutrient
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deficiencies just not eating
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the good things the nutrient dense
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things and then you lose all that weight
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and you got low energy okay enough said
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on that one third thing ah this is a bad
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one mental and emotional Wellness
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sometimes are affected and while we're
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still learning
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glp1 has shown to have influence on the
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brain regions involved with emotional
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regulation so we're seeing research on
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anxiety and depression and suicidal
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behaviors and ideation thinking about it
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this is a serious concern and you know
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we got a lot to figure out here but we
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know the gut is responsible for making
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the majority of the body
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serotonin so what's going on here is
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there suppression got to do a lot more
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research here and then fourth nutrient
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deficiencies and I hear this from a lot
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of people
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you know from the very beginning when
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people were just starting to experiment
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with it you know they could care less
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about eating and what we've seen is that
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people on glp1 need a lot more protein
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and that's usually the last thing they
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want aiming for a minimum of 30 grams of
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protein with each meal perhaps more
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protein supplements collagen and
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boosting any intake in any way possible
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as really important and B vitamins lots
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of healthy fats and all those
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phytonutrients that are crucial to
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building and maintaining Health one
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concern I have is that when you've got
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all those toxins that are stored in the
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fat cells they're just flooding the
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system at a time when your nutrient
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depleted you know the kidneys and the
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liver need help clearing these toxins
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they need all the nutrients they need
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the protein they need the antioxidants
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they need the healthy fats and if you're
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melting all that fat off fast with
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compromised nutrition you're asking for
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trouble that's why in my 10day myot
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challenge making you healthy again I
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give you a great healthy menu and the
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supplements to support your body while
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clearing those toxins so if you're on
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gp1s number one you got to preserve your
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muscle with emphasis on eating lots of
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protein and strength training big time
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three times a week in the long term
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strength training is going to boost
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metabolism and lower the rebound weight
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gain because now you got more muscle and
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that burns calories even when you're
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sleeping and you're metabolically
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healthier second thing you got to keep
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that gut moving so Ginger is something
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you might use to kind of help the
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motility I love artichoke capsules to
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stimulate the bile and we know bile
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lubricates the digestive tract and keeps
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that gallbladder healthy and then
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magnesium citrate that's another good
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helper for constipation and usually we
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aim for about 400 milligrams but check
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with your prescriber to see what they
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think now for everybody else who simply
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wants to boost your own biological glp
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one so you're not hungry all the time or
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if you want to be sure you maintain all
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the benefits when you start weaning off
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the medication here is what I teach
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teach my clients because if and when you
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go off you got to make sure you got your
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mindset changed you got to make sure you
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got the good healthier choices and your
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lifestyle choices so you can prevent
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what ultimately would have happened
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otherwise the old Cravings come roaring
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back and your body reverts to the old
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patterns so it's not your fault it's
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biology so we got correct the biology
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and that's all so here are the tools to
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do 10 things so now is the time to get
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your pencil out number one I love
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intermittent fasting it works it's a
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booster number two exercise brisk
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walking biking that supports glp1 and
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it's also good for insulin and blood
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sugar number three protein Rich meals
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start your meal with protein that is
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going to increase your
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glp1 than any other kind of meal number
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four fiber all your vegetables that are
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rich in fiber they control glp1 release
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they food the microbes and so much more
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pelium I love pelium fiber it is one of
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the cheapest ways to get that going and
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absorbs toxins keeps your feeling full
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so much more number five healthy fats
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like omega-3 flax and fish oil and
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avocados they control the release of
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gop1 in the gut lining number six coffee
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with its chlorogenic acid yes ma'am it's
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doing it there is a supplement called
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Kell curb uh it's an extract of hops
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proven clinical trials to regulate and
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reduce appetite Cravings ultimately
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caloric intake number eight love this
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one I had somebody that had fatty liver
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disease blood sugar issues up the
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W and they're now they hemoglobin A1c is
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five I'm so amazed okay so they are on
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berberine Ultra ter naturally berberine
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Ultra it's just a one a day love it but
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other other herbs uh spices green tea
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black tea curcumin my daily every my
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number one thing all over the place is
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that circumin cinnamon R veratrol and
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all the spices are good number nine
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glp1 probiotic we have the best most
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research I am a fan for me I found it's
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good for about 5bs I've gone on and off
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several times it just works number 10
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controlling stress deep breathing
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laughter friendship all those things are
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important and getting 8 hours of quality
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sleep sleep really important for that
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gop1 so there you go another edition of
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today's nutrition I hope it helps you or
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someone you love if you want to listen
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again I'll have it on my website Deb
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for.com or on YouTube under Dr Deb Ford
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or any place you listen to podcast have
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a great day and see how you can boost
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your own glp1 today and save yourself
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$1,200 this month have a good one
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Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Mar 10, 2025
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I’m going to break down the four biggest benefits of GLP-1 agonists—because, yes, there are some undeniable upsides. But I’m also going to shine a light on the four biggest concerns that are being overlooked in the rush to prescribe these medications. And then, we’re going to focus on the real solution—how we can naturally support our own GLP-1 production, enhance metabolic health, and even mitigate the side effects for those who choose to use these drugs. You might want to get a pencil out because I am going to give you 10 proven ways to balance your GLP-1 and ultimately get those cravings under control