The Truth About Weight Loss Medications: Insights from Functional Practitioner Marie Simpson

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Welcome to this week's settle up segment where we take key takeaways from

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Tuesday's episode of Doing Life Different.

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And on Tuesday, I was blessed to have my

good friend and the functional assessment

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practitioner, my practitioner, Marie

Simpson on She was talking about what

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we're all talking about are those.

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Those weight loss medications and I

wanted to get the skinny from Marie.

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I wanted to find out what other

functional assessment practitioners

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and natural paths and, um, folks

are saying about these medications.

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I wanted to find out what they do

that we can't do on our own, and

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if there are ways that we can.

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Do things that kind of act like that,

and also just to kind of touch base on

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is it really necessary for somebody who

maybe has five or 10 pounds to lose?

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And so it was a great conversation.

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Go back and listen.

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It's, it's long and detailed and full of,

of good stuff, but I just, I do wanna give

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you just that outlying information so.

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What I learned from Marie is they really

can't find anything wrong with it.

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I mean, you would think there are some

side effects and she talks about those.

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So go back and listen

if you wanna hear those.

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So as with any medication,

right, there can be side effects.

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But other than that, and the fact

that for somebody who's really obese.

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Is thinking about being on the

medication for the rest of their

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lives, you know, and kind of planning

on that might be a good option.

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She also works with patients who are

trying to, working to get off of it.

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The thing that's hard about them, and

the thing that you need to be careful

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of, if you're on, um, some of these, um.

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Medications is that when you

lose the weight, she said, I feel

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like you lose a lot of muscle.

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And so you wanna be cognizant of

your muscle, of your bone density.

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You know, I love osteostrong,

that osteogenic loading and I'll,

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I, you know, we'll talk about

that in an upcoming episode, but

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you wanna make sure that you're.

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If you are on these medications,

you're taking a lot of protein, you're

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doing HIIT workouts and strength

training, kinda what is good for you

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when you're not on the meds, right?

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So I think what she talked about

was how it can really bring hope.

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To people and, and then

they can take the action.

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That's hard to take.

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It's hard to go for a walk

if it hurts when you walk.

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So, you know, take it slow, go on them,

you know, if you need to go on those

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meds, go on 'em and, and do the important

things that you need to do to have a

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healthy lifestyle Along with it, she

always talks about like, um, better.

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And best and like better is doing

it, you know, doing the medication

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best is to also do all the things

like low sugar, high protein.

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Um, so we, we talked a lot about that.

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Um, I asked her about what we can do.

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To kind of replicate what that

medication does because apparently

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it kind of works with your hormones.

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It makes you feel full and satisfied.

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And the things she told me about

protein, and you know, we're hearing

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it, it's, she said, 30 grams per meal.

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I'm telling you, it's kind

of hard to do sometimes.

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She also talked about a way to eat,

and I'm not gonna repeat that here

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because I could mess that up because

I'm not a medical practitioner,

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but she talked about a strategy

on what type of food to eat first.

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Um, but I do know that protein is key.

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Um, we talked a lot about

joy and stress reduction.

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And so, um, you know, I think we tend

to forget that when we're stressed out,

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it makes our hormones go wonky, which

can affect how we metabolize things.

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It can affect, you know,

causing us to eat more.

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And so just as with

everything, we need more joy.

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And even with our eating,

it even plays a factor.

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Our weight loss.

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So go back and listen.

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It's such, I don't know if I'm doing

it justice because I don't have that

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medical background, but the basic

bottom line is she doesn't really have

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a lot of bad things to say about it.

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There are some side effects, as with

any, um, drug, she thinks that yep,

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if you have five pounds to lose,

you can, um, do it, but probably.

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Not necessary.

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And why would you go on a medication?

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Because it's not really gonna benefit

your body like it would someone who

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had a large amount of weight to lose.

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So, um, find the joy.

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Eat your protein, lift your weights.

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Have fun.

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Have fun.

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Go for walks.

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Play tennis, play pickleball.

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Play ping pong For goodness sakes, just do

things to move your body and enjoy life.

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And that seems to be the key to having a

healthy weight and a healthy long life.

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Go back and listen.

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It's a great one.