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Jan, from Kent, was one of many first individuals on this planet to participate within the trials of semaglutide. It is offered as Wegovy for weight-loss and as Ozempic for diabetes, though some individuals have been shopping for this model to shed pounds.
We all know any person like Jan, who has tried each weight loss plan, and he or she has been battling her waistline her complete life.
Semaglutide mimics a hormone that’s launched once we eat. It tips the mind into pondering we’re full and dials down urge for food so we eat much less.
Once Jan began having the injections, her relationship with meals was so transformational that she informed me it was both right down to the drug or “I’ve been kidnapped by aliens”.
For the primary time she might go into a restaurant, see some millionaire’s shortbread and never have her physique screaming, “I would like one”.
Instead it was, “I do not really feel hungry… my physique was saying you don’t need it, it wasn’t me utilizing willpower,” she says.
The outcomes of semaglutide are simple – a minimum of for some time.
On common, individuals who have been overweight misplaced about 15% of their physique weight, exterior when taking semaglutide alongside wholesome life-style recommendation in a trial. Note this isn’t a “skinny jab” – 15% takes you from 20 stone right down to 17.
That examine confirmed the burden got here off over the primary yr after which stabilised for the remaining three months of the trial. We have no idea what occurs when individuals take the drug for years.
Jan misplaced 28kg (greater than 4 stone). It meant she might lastly get pleasure from her sixtieth birthday current – a flight in a Tiger Moth aeroplane, having been over the utmost weight restrict earlier than. “I used to be flying in additional methods than one, and boy did I get pleasure from it.”
