Behavior Changes around Ozempic/Semaglutide (GLP-1'S) and How They Might Effect You

[Music] [Applause] [Music] our next caller is Andreas from Canada what's up dude how you doing man what's happening glad you I'm glad you emailed yeah uh thank you for taking the the email um my doctor's concern of course was my health markers um but I had thought OIC just to be the new hot for pharmaceutical and I've had a hard time trusting big farmer recently and I think you guys know why however after gop1 agonists uh have been around for almost 20 years and uh a lot and having hearing a lot of anecdotal evidence of its H hedonistic wanting effects largely from Adam and S I became more interested uh I understand hitting protein goals and resistance training is King while on treatment and I know Adam has said as much Adam also mentioned that this is a good time to fix your relationship to food and I'd like a little more clarification on this also what other strategies can I use to set myself up for Success while while on OIC and coming out of it good great question yes that's why I wanted to go on very good question all right things to look out for uh when you start is your appetite getting absolutely crushed are you getting nauseous um those things you want to pay attention for uh to because then you probably would want to go with a lower dose um so you want an appetite reduction but you don't want to get so bad where you can't you can't hold anything down um although not super common that can definitely happen so pay attention to that um as far as food relationship is concerned so I'm going to simplify this for you and then I'll add a little a little bit more to it whenever you have a behavior every time you practice that behavior you maintain the neural connections and you essentially you maintain the behavior so you talk about gaming for example gaming addiction if you play every single day you're kind of reinforcing that behavior every single day if you stop for whatever reason let's just say you know we forced you to stop we took all your games away you couldn't play for 6 months that behavior starts to weaken and those neural connections starts to weaken because you're not practicing the behavior this is where you can get in my belief my opinion where a lot of the behavior modification effects can happen from using a gp1 because your appetite is reduced you're eating less and so you're not constantly strengthening this overeating you know type of Behavior now there is evidence that suggests that there's probably more to this where it actually does through maybe reduction in neural inflammation um and maybe some other stuff that I don't know and understand that it may also just affect the hedonistic uh parts of the brain to where you just through some other mechanisms I don't understand will reduce your desire to even engage in those behaviors okay so that so there's that here's the other part that I would say when you're on OIC and it's working for you and you find yourself eating less every time you eat you're going to have to make a conscious uh make a conscious practice of awareness with the food it's going to feel silly it's going to feel awkward but literally it's one of these things I'm eating this cuz I want to care for myself I'm eating this because I want to be healthy I deserve to be healthy like you got to say that to yourself every single time and it's going to feel weird like any other Behavior feels when you first start it like when you see a kid first start to ride a bike it looks awkward and weird because they don't know how so what I'm saying is going to feel that way for a while cuz I when I tell people this like that's stupid I don't want to say that to myself every time I eat well you won't have to every time but at first you'll make that decision now to someone who's spiritual I would say pray before you eat that's one way to do it someone who isn't spiritual you could write it down or you could just say it out loud to yourself like okay I know they said this sounds this feels weird but I want to care for myself I want to take care I want to be healthy I deserve to be healthy and then you do it and then little by little you're actually creating this new relationship with food and it does take time um uh to do so and that's really what it's all about now the other thing I want to say is this keep your water intake up I just we just came back from a peptide conference and I and I heard a talk on glp 1's by these are leading Physicians and researchers in the world okay so it's like Dr seeds put this event together I was very very lucky to hear some of these talks I got I got to hear information that I haven't heard communicated anywhere else and OIC you know some some AG glutide tepati any other gp1s reduce your appetite they also reduce your thirst so when you eat less you take in less fluid because you get fluid through your food something like up to 20% of your fluid comes from food and then you also want to drink less water if you eat less and you drink less and you're in a deficit that's the the that sends a sign for your body to pair muscle down so right consciously keep your fluid intake up and add electrolytes to your water because your sodium is also going to drop as your food as your food intake drops so I like uh just any electrolyte powder will work element te is really good um and you just add some of it to your water and then pay attention I need to drink a half a gallon to a gallon a day stay consistent with that that'll help mitigate the things and then supplements you should be taking creatine and to get your protein intake if you're finding it hard to hit your prot protein targets while on OIC because your appetite's so low use a protein powder to hit those targets and I would use um bone broth or collagen protein because I also learned that those proteins are high in amino acids that are osmolites they're known as osmolytes they draw water in and you want that for your muscle so although whey protein is what everybody talks about as being the best in this case I think cagen may actually be superior uh paleo Valley another partner we work with they have a chocolate bone broth proce delicious you're going to want something palatable if your appetite's low so those are the things that I would recommend while you go uh through this process and what you the two options at the end of this journey will be stay on a low dose of a glp1 on and off for the rest of your life or perhaps you can go off completely and maintain some of these behaviors and there's some people that have been able to do that as well I want to comment a little bit on the behavior changing uh stuff as far as some tips for you and and this becomes even more important when you come off and that is if you have certain Behavior say it's around gaming say it's around like mine where eating ice cream late at night or whatever it is one of the cool Parts about the glp1 is it has it completely like crushed that for me I didn't even have it but once I came off of it th those Temptations came back in now the neat part was I found that it was way easier to resist that Temptation and I re I recognized that what I wanted to do was to replace that behavior with a new Behavior so and my new Behavior became like oh my Greek yogurt and my my my um fruit so that was like instead of ice cream I'm going to tell myself okay I have this craving now I'm going to go do that it wasn't hard to resist it because I had cut it out for so long with the glp1 replac it with that and now it's like oh my God I forgot how much I love Greek yogurt and fruit and i' and what I'm doing is I'm forming a new relationship with that Temptation and craving at night that will help solidify and keep the behaviors at at B the bad behaviors at Bay if yours might say yours was gaming and you notice wow when I'm on this glp1 I have less of a desire to have to do that all the time my recommendation would be come up with a healthy Behavior or a diff a behavior you want to add to your life so let's say for example that might be reading you know or that might be training and exercising or going for a walk so in times where you might have defaulted to oh I'm going to go sit on the video game for four hours and now you're not doing it as much try and replace it with a healthier habit or behavior you want to add into your life and the glp1 seemed to there seems to be a lot of research that's pointing that it helps solidify those new good behaviors and so be be aware of that too and then like s said the journaling as you go through this process a lot of that is you know not only being learning to be more present but it's also noticing patterns and that was one of the things I shared with the guys was like you know I didn't even realize some of the things I was doing before and so writing that down will help that for and for when you come off to be ready for it and be paying attention and knowing how to how to have better healthy habits instead of those right yeah so replacing the habit of like you know replacing addictions is was probably one of the things I'm hoping to do just because I did do it in the past and especially with my training and that's kind of how I hit those numbers uh in in the gym um but for whatever reason I'm just having a hard time doing it this time yeah um for for whatever whatever reason it's tough man listen it's tough this is a journey so you're going to go up and down just just the way it is it's all Journeys with your workout I'm gonna say this you when when your calories drop your volume and intensity need to drop as well a big mistake people make when they go on a glp1 is like all right I'm on this weight loss Journey I'm going to work out more I'm going to work out harder not a great idea you're your the chances that you'll overtrain go up as the calories go down a good solid routine is a two or 3 day week full body routine while you're on this gp1 or even Advanced Maps 15 would be a good option and then I would say uh walk yeah after breakfast lunch and dinner 10-minute walk you do that you're going to be you're going to do great yeah if you can solidify those new patterns and and make that a routine and that you carry after you're off um you know this is one of those things where it's just going to create a an entirely new protocol for you so um you know trying to trying to kind of capture that right now and be intentional about it you know that's the hard part but that's what's really going to um you know replace what you know Common behaviors you had going into this right right yeah cuz I'm like I I do hope to be off with Z eventually just Cu uh well I'd rather not be on it for the rest of my life of course sure understood my friend yeah like uh I mean I actually haven't even started yet I actually got my my dose last last week but uh I was camping this weekend and I think uh you know I'd rather not find out that I'm about to [ __ ] my pants and out in the woods you know so you you haven't started it Andre scare the Bears no I I just got the treat I got um I got the dosage last week and then I was feeling a little sick last week doctor said it might uh have some GI distress as well so um I yeah I figured it might just be a good idea not to do it until I come back home sure yeah yeah do you mind me asking how much they're charging you per what's a month go for insurance covers some of it I think oh um I think it was like uh was it 0.06 sorry 68 G uh was going for like 250 bucks Canadian yeah so um the thing with OIC brand name is there's it's a set dosage so if you find some of the like nausea and it crushes your appetite talk to your doctor say I want to take a lower dose CU I I I know the O OIC pen is like pre-loaded like it's like boom this is a dose versus yeah the one that I got it has two doses so it was like like a half dose and and then I guess the full dose yes but even the half dose for some people is too high you now you might be fine people are fine so don't freak out but if you're like oh my God this my like I I can't I don't want to eat anything I'm crushed um or you feel nausea then it's then it's it's probably a little too high so like the the compound pharmacies you you you draw yourself with a insulin needle and so you could go as low as you want you know starting dose let's say would be 25 units whatever that is in milligrams and then you'd be like oh that's too much I'm going to go way down to five or 10 the preloaded pens don't necessarily allow you to do that so if you just don't feel good that doesn't mean necessarily it's not for you it may mean the dose is just too high tell your doctor is there a way to cut this even in half um and and you know take even less although many people don't don't have that problem Andreas also I'm going have Doug send you the link we haven't like formally announced this um but it's coming we are going to actually coach people through uh a three-month program that we wrote specifically for gp1s and so training program lifestyle like you'll get coached by Adam myself and Justin and so we're going to allow only 50 Slots of people to do this with um and when we launch the program and it's coming and we're creating a weit list of people that would be interested in it and so if you go and Doug we'll send that over to you but it's coach g1.com um and then you could and then anytime we release any information we'll send it out to that email list first so fill that out so you have access to that if that's something you're interested in um we'll make sure to keep you uh in the loop hey that's awesome yeah I'll definitely uh sign up for that good good and you know what Circle back with us in a couple months I want to hear how this goes yeah yeah yeah absolutely all right all right man all right hey thanks guys thank you brother yeah we were uh I was chatting with him via DM yeah it says that in his email yeah yeah and like you know like I knew like his he had good questions and I'm like it's like Nuance this is going to take me a long time to go back and forth via DM I do want to say to and I I made it this point a little bit but the brand name um you know gp1s they come preloaded and it's like you you have two dose options and that's it and after talking to Dr Tina yeah and that episode's already up after talking to Dr Tina she's like that's too high for a lot of people even my own experience yeah I mean I it's actually a little baffling to me that they don't start really low and then kind of work their way up so I I also because that's the clinical dose in the studies that gave them the highest body weight I don't know for sure but from my experience of the people that we've been talking to it seems to be people that are healthier metabolically IE require less require less and so I'm I'm assuming that that that's why they don't that's why they probably have that as a generic CU I think most people they see in the that's what the data right yeah so I think that has a lot to do with but look I have a buddy that that was overweight he wasn't metabolically healthy and he took the the tiny start the the recommended starting dose oh nauseous felt terrible I mean I I asked him I wanted to know the the price because a lot of people don't first of all oica is like the first generation of these these recent ones and tritide is is better that's a dual Agonist yeah it's better it's generic naming and so it's just not it's not going to be as expensive so people that that don't understand that going through your your doctor and getting OIC even though even if he has some insurance covering he might be paying more than what he would pay if he were to go through MP hormones so I was just talking to a friend really similar to his you know size and situation and all that really what really helped him he started actually reading like an intuitive or like a mindful kind of eating book and then I sent him our intuitive guide and really got a lot of benefit with that going into it so that way he had sort of a you know an objective like something like I want to start focusing on these Whole Foods and start incorporating these things very slowly and it's it's been really helpful that's why I gave that tip about like recognizing where these habits and behaviors are and then instead of just being like oh nice they're gone going like oh what can I replace in there to create a new habit intentional going yes and I think that's an area where again this is highlighting why we want to do this with a a a group of people to really help people understand that you know we're we're you're really missing the target if all you do is get on this drug just to lose a bunch of weight and you don't put any work in you're not think you're not going in with any sort of intent you don't create new behaviors around stuff like that you don't make the connections to the things that you doing before otherwise you're signing up to just be on the [ __ ] for the rest of your life and I don't think that's the goal for us at all for people it's that use this it's a a very powerful tool and if you're going to use it let's use it and make it impactful so that you don't have to use it for the rest of your life and these are some of the things I think that we're going to cover during this this coaching process [Music] [Applause] [Music]