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When Ruth Taylor participated in the test to study Semaglutide (most people know it as a weight loss that I know as an ozempic brand Ozempic, she thought it was a dream.
Oldham County Woman (70) has injected himself once a week for the drug for about six months in 2018 and experienced a “important” weight loss.
But when the test ended because there was no time to get out of the drug, she suddenly stopped the gun. Then, “almost immediate” she said that all the lost weight was restored. She woke up despite the lack of changes in eating habits, she said.
Taylor said, “I can’t slow down or stop fast weight gain.”
She thinks it would have helped if she could remove the drug from the drug without stopping the drug quickly.
But she said that there was a positive thing about taking it. The food diary she kept during the trial helped to better understand her daily habits. But she knew that the treatment itself was too boring and impossible. She does not know the result of his trial.
In Kentucky, the use of Ozempic is widespread. High rate diagnosis.
According to the preliminary data, more than one of the 10 patients with dietary disorders suggest that Ozempic, an injection for the treatment of diabetes, is worried about misuse among people with food disorders.
But this drug is legally acquired and used according to the proper and appropriate medical guidelines, experts say.
The latter was the experience of Benjamin Know. Danville man was a diabetes before, and when doctors, doctors, and doctors tried, high blood pressure and cholesterol were attempted. Zepbound is similar to Ozempic It has been approved by weight loss.
He first quoted the internal “stigma” and resisted the idea of the drug. He wanted to lose weight, but “I wanted to do it… It is an old way. ”
KNOLL was shot in December and experienced regular nausea for about a week.
He still doesn’t know if he’s going to take Zepbound yet, but he doesn’t want to do so forever. His personal insurance pays only part of the cost. He does not want to rely on it despite the $ 200 or $ 50 pockets a month.
“I’m already thinking.
In the fiscal year of 2023-2024, Kentucky Medicade paid $ 225 million. GLP-1 According to Kendra Steele, a spokesman for health and family services, drugs for treating 76,195 people. GLP-1 refers to a drug class that treats blood sugar drops.
Kentucky Medicaid said, “It contains only GLP-1 drugs prescribed to treat diabetes.” “The Kentucky team is doing its best to support the health and welfare of the Medicaid winners affected by diabetes.”
Kentucky has a country Sixth highest ratio Diabetic It takes about $ 5 billion every year. According to the US Diabetes Association, as of 2022.
How does ozempic work?
There is no treatment for diabetes, but Ozbig is A Normal hormone release Those who have type 2 diabetes explained that there is no chief executive officer of the British pharmacy university and Brooke Hudspeth, associate professor of pharmacy.
Hudspeth said, “It was first approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
HUDSPETH explained that the weekly shooting that the patient can inject the stomach or thighs can slow the intestinal motility and fill the people.
“The food is sitting a little longer in the intestines, so it doesn’t pass quickly, so it doesn’t absorb sugar or blood sugar quickly,” she said.
But such drugs should not be taken without modifying the lifestyle, she said.
“We really want to emphasize the treatment plan. “Therefore, this drug is important, has a great results, successful, and patients can withstand well. But we also want to do this in cooperation with the lifestyle management strategy. ”
Usually that lifestyle adjustment is eating more nutritious foods and increasing physical activity, she said. This adjustment was the core of Knoll.
Knoll’s insurance should meet a health coach that has made a big difference in his life while taking Zepbound, he said.
When he first started injection treatment in December 2024, Knoll thought he would eat a day in the drug. His health coat refused to emphasize the importance of eating regular meals, eating nutritious foods, and focusing on prioritizing protein priorities.
He said that his own, mainly for more fish, helped his cholesterol and blood pressure. He is also taking medicine for such a problem. He is no longer Before diabetes.
HUDSPETH said that the approval of GLP-1 is “a change in how to manage patients.” “In addition to lowering blood sugar, we are seeing many other advantages except for the weight loss sculptures that are even looking at the prescribed people.”
She said, “Reduced cardiovascular risk… The main concern of diabetics. ”
Can this ‘magic drug’ cause eating disorders?
Researchers at the University of Louis Bill, who are studying for eating disorders, are worried about the influence of Ozempic on eating disorders. 9% impact It is one of the most fatal mental illnesses of Americans for lifetime.
Kentucky and Southern Indiana Medical Publication MD-UPDATE, estimated in 2024 There were about 900,000 Kentucky people, including 29,000 children with diet.
Cheri Levinson, an associate professor of university Louis Intake anxiety treatment lab (Eat a laboratory) In 2024, about 120 people were caring for food disorders. About 11%of them said they were using or using Ozempic.
Levinson said, “11 %is very high for those who come to treat dietary disorders. “I can guarantee that one of them is already having a hard time limiting. And you… There is a very problem. ”
Now she wants to learn more about the relationship between eating disorders and Oz picks. She and Nicholas Peiper, an associate professor of epidemiological and population and a scientist at Eat Lab, Louisville University, is starting a pilot study this year.
For about a year, these two will try to investigate about 1,000 people with a diet and investigate about 1,000 people to learn how to get one of the population and drugs.
Levinson also said, “I want to learn if it is really harmful or helped for eating disorders.” “If they are harmful, if you are a food pharmacy or that person, you should explicitly think that this can be harmful to a particular population. Because now, it is marketing with this great thing instead of thinking about the possible damage that it can cause.”
Taylor and Knoll both said that there is no personal history of eating disorders. But the researchers are entirely concerned about those who have a man in developing them.
Levinson said, “I know that limit is the main component of all eating disorders. “The following disorders are as follows Long history Use all possible means to misuse diet medicine and supplements and limit food intake to lose weight. Now we basically have a ‘magic’ drug that loses and limits people. And I am worried that it will be used as a way of helping eating disorders to help with eating disorders to help with eating disorders. ”
‘The reality that everyone can win’
Nearly 30 million Americans will have eating disorders at some point in their lives. National Finding Disability Association. But the misunderstanding of them is still rooted in society.
Levinson said, “People say that if you are not very thin, you have no eating disorders and not at all. “People with 80% (80%) of eating disorders are in the middle or large body.”
PEIPER said there could be an addictive component in eating disorders.
“People with food disorders are increasing the risk of drug use disorders compared to the general population.” “People with food disorders have an interesting relationship with a variety of drugs, especially in an interesting relationship that are used for specific reasons to lead the behavior and symptoms, and are slightly different from the traditional addictive process that uses the material that is addicted to the cycle and adds to such a type of cycle.”
Peiper and Levinson also want to investigate whether there is an addictive component that takes something to change weight.
PEIPER said that the drug is “not a mental active drug, but there is a concern about the action they strengthen.
“I will say that limit is especially compulsive,” he said. “It is very periodic in nature. Therefore, it is effectively primable for priming restrictions and precious behavior. ”
Levinson and Peiper says that his concern is not for people who need ozempic and related drugs medicalally.
“This drug can be very beneficial, and I’ve heard a lot about it. Peiper said. “I think there is a reality that everyone can win if they can find the balance between a comprehensive (diet disorder) screening.”
This story was originally on kentuckylantern.com.
