Google searches for his impact have been skyrocketing now that the diabetes drug is trending on TikTok but people aren't just using it to manage the disease but rather to lose weight here to talk more about the medication is the team from a new body contouring we have founder Katina current nurse Kristin Klay thermos patient coordinator and Rep Jennifer Lang land and they also brought in someone to share her success story we have Ginni Hannifin here as well good morning ladies and- the in here.
Well there is also been widespread shortage of this drug because it's been so popular talk about how it how it works first Kristen and this is like an appetite suppressor right yep so- semaglutide is FDA approved for weight loss- it definitely works on appetite suppression it helps- slow gastric emptying their for you eat smaller portions and- get full. For longer and the name of it can be confusing but it's the same thing riders similar how does that work correct so as in big and we go we are the brand names and that they both- absolutely tight and so describe how it works are you doing an injection. Weekly once a week okay engine is going to get one today all. Right so how does the injection work. Now sure yeah C. H. write out just do it yourself. So you get a that they come of home I guess right so you just. Pick up the Manson's is it hard to give yourself an injection I thought it would be but it. Is probably a small needle almost like a diabetic so I was I would say.
Is one you don't have you had any side effects it. At first you have side effects- feel a little tired and nauseous. But as time went by that went away and now I'm exercising. Again and so on leveled off on the dosage. So it's been working it's- like favored how long you been doing it now- since November November so any that was really quick we have before and after pictures give us an idea of your results.
Explainers journey why you started in the first place and how you're feeling about your results because they are dramatic. I'm tall so I don't notice the weight going on me but thirty obvious. To over two hundred pounds two hundred seventy pounds and now I'm down to one eighty. That's incredible have you made any other lifestyle changes besides doing the drug. Starting I just went back to orange theory which her love.
But it was and she's also started a Mormon replacement there and I'll get pallets- because you when you're low on. When you're my age I'm fifty five you get low on- testosterone. Which you need for energy and- just to feel I you're- you know. Again normal. Understand mostly lose about two to four pounds per week and so it sounds like yours is certainly been been coming right off. Not getting a let's talk about the fact that this is FDA approved but not covered by insurance for this for weight loss. So not necessarily so.
For weight loss we go V. is the only drug that's on the market that is for weight loss but you have to have a BMI of. Minimum twenty seven up to thirty and higher. At the cost of it seventeen hundred dollars a month it is not she is not cheap at all. And the problem that we have a lot of our patients that come in and started some of the type with us.
Have said you know go get one prescription they go to the pharmacy and they can't get refills. You know the pharmacy is like arguing with them the insurance companies that got to go back to the doctor. So I know them because relief just made for diabetics. So when you're looking at the difference between the two of those. As a because a little bit of semaglutide we got we has a lot more some of the type. We actually have the full some of which had mixed with the B.
twelve. Sometimes it's combined with a little anti nausea to help with. Any kind of side and I'm sorry will run a time where we go for more information- server nobody country okay and we actually. Jennifer is our new partner with her new body wellness so we've also started that within our company. Congratulations..