DR MARC SIEGEL: America, beware of false weight loss gods

Oprah Winfrey is connected a publication circuit promoting her caller book, "Enough: Your Weight and What It’s Like to Be Free." In 2023, she reportedly had 1 of her celebrated "aha" moments, this clip realizing that her roadworthy to idiosyncratic state progressive GLP-1 agonist drugs. She stopped seeing obesity arsenic a idiosyncratic nonaccomplishment and began viewing GLP-1s arsenic a mode to "quiet the noise" that comes with perpetually wanting to eat. In her telling, she was abruptly free.

Don’t get maine wrong, I judge Oprah’s "aha moments" are real, and I besides spot the large worth of GLP-1 drugs, particularly successful a nine wherever astir 70% of the colonisation is either overweight oregon obese. 

I besides similar the mode these drugs work, decreasing hunger signals successful the encephalon and delaying gastric emptying, which person added benefits that whitethorn see reducing the tendency for alcohol, improving insulin ratio and decreasing inflammation successful the body. They little humor pressure, trim cholesterin levels, and amended cardiac function, which is 1 of the reasons truthful galore cardiologists are taking them. 

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But they are besides mendacious gods. They are almighty tools for physicians and their patients, but they bash not instrumentality the spot of treating your assemblage similar a temple and honoring it by exercising more, sleeping better, and eating healthier foods. The spot to commencement is not with GLP-1 drugs**;** they are not aesculapian miracles each by themselves.

They are besides portion of a larger occupation wherever radical unreserved to shots and pills for solutions without afloat examining the underlying cause. Of course, arsenic a practicing internist, it is important to maine that I assistance you get your value down by immoderate harmless means necessary, due to the fact that of the beardown relation betwixt obesity and the hazard of bosom disease, diabetes, stroke, precocious humor pressure, and respective kinds of cancer, including breast, colon, liver, and pancreatic cancer. 

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GLP-1 drugs are not occurrence workers, they are simply effectual tools successful a trained doctor’s arsenal to combat obesity.

Worshiping them tin pb to dependence that is hard to break, and erstwhile they are stopped, patients (including Oprah) often find themselves regaining the weight.

Holding these drugs retired arsenic the lone effectual solution besides opens the doorway for charlatans to usage them to proselytize galore into taking ripoffs and inexpensive alternatives sold done online pharmacies that whitethorn beryllium medically dangerous.

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It is simply a much cardinal attack to look astatine the nutrient we devour and to clasp the MAHA — "Make America Healthy Again" — movement’s accent connected full foods, with a declared warfare connected ultra-processed food.

God didn’t enactment america connected the satellite to pollute our bodies with chemicals**,** dyes**,** oregon synthetic flavors oregon sweeteners that gully america into a satellite of unhealthy addiction.

Replacing an addiction to unhealthy foods with a dependence connected GLP-1 drugs is not the lone viable semipermanent solution.

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Keep successful caput that losing value tin besides beryllium associated with your faith, seeing your assemblage arsenic sacred, aligning spiritual subject with steadfast eating and exercise, and seeking comfortableness successful God alternatively than successful food.

In fact, determination are galore prayers passim the Bible that whitethorn assistance america down the roadworthy to treating obesity. Here is 1 of my favorites:

"Your Word says my assemblage is Your temple, and I americium liable for stewarding this gift. I take contiguous to marque close choices regarding the foods I eat. I volition not devour much than my assemblage needs, and I volition not capable my rima with foods that are unhealthy, specified arsenic excessive sweetener and carbohydrates. I garbage to unrecorded a beingness of gluttony and alternatively clothe myself successful self-control and steadfast surviving truthful I whitethorn service You well." 

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Can the hunger "noise" that Oprah speaks of beryllium quieted by the GLP-1 value nonaccomplishment drugs? The reply is yes. These drugs are miracles of modern science. But the mode to a thinner aboriginal tin besides beryllium recovered done a healing hymn, supplication and spiritual healing that whitethorn supply the way to a much imperishable solution than immoderate injection alone.

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