Losing weight is reversing diabetes and losing weight for millions of people

BUFALO, NY – “I got a gun, lifted my shirt, put it in and that was it. Man my first month at Mounjaro I lost 42 pounds.”

That was just the beginning for Abraham Marquez, who was morbidly obese. He weighed 490 pounds just 18 months ago.

Today, he is a healthy 191 pounds. He lost about 300 lbs. with the help of a GLP-1 drug that slows down digestion, making you feel fuller for longer. Some experts say it promotes weight loss by stimulating satiety in the brain, eliminating what many people call “food cravings.”

“Food noise means you look to the left, and to the right…McDonald’s, Burger King, it’s food noise,” Markez said. “As soon as you take the medicine, that goes away. Not just the food. Your colleagues stopped smoking, casinos, alcohol, because it removes that substance from the brain.”

So, how exactly did Abraham lose all that weight? He was given Monjauro’s GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, I shoot once a week, similar to Ozempic, which lowers blood sugar. It also has weight loss side effects. “It saved my life and the lives of millions of others out there,” Marquez says.

Manufacturers report that the average user loses 20% of body weight. Research shows a dramatic reduction in cardiovascular events among many other benefits.

Dr. Howard Lippes, who specializes in Endocrinology and Internal Medicine for R & B Medical Group says, “The number one cause of death in America is stroke, heart disease. It’s very good for everyone, if you have and type 2 diabetes. If you are obese, then that risk doubles, even triples, and these drugs have a dramatic effect on reducing that heart risk.

Lippes says these drugs have been around for several decades and are very safe and effective against insulin resistance and fatty liver disease. “This medication has been a real game changer for us,” he said.

The benefits don’t end there. Many chemicals are directly related to obesity. Dr. Lippes says that if we can get rid of stubborn body fat, we should see a significant reduction in cancer and other diseases. “There are all these chemicals that we know are directly related to obesity, and basically any cancer you can think of; hepatocellular cancer, liver cancer in particular, it associated with obesity, this fatty liver disease. So, the expectation is that if we can remove the fat, we will see the number of people with cancer decrease.”

A common misconception is that these drugs are an easy way to lose weight, a magic shot.

Simply put, they are not.

You really need the help of medicine to lose weight.

“You have to work with medicine,” said Marquez. “Medicine doesn’t do everything, it doesn’t do everything. People don’t understand that. They just take medicine and lie on the bed and lose it all. It’s not act like that, you have to do your part You have to eat well, you have to reduce the bad things that have gotten you to this point, drink a lot of water, eat clean and be true to you and help with stress, stress is a killer when it comes to obesity.”

For Abraham, his amazing transformation was possible thanks to positive changes in his life, and pain-free shooting once a week.

“If someone told you that they were going to come out with a medication that would help control blood sugar, help control the way you think about food, your relationship with food, and get rid of and to feel full longer. , you might think it’s a miracle drug, but it’s not a miracle drug,” said Markez. “You have to do your part, the drug doesn’t do it all it’s a miracle, and it’s a good time for us to be alive when these medicines are available to us.”