In addition to the currency exchange difference, eating in a Japanese restaurant is cheaper because you are NOT allowed to leave a tip. It is considered an insult to tip someone who is just doing their job.

Great guest !! Great Episode !!

Thank you for this.

I'm a diabetic. I tried Rybelsus, the pill version of Ozempic, as well as four other diabetes meds and I could not physically tolerate them so I went back on insulin.

@angelabroom2861

10 күн бұрын

You shouldn't take these drugs if you are already prescribed insulin.

@catherinezeilman2985

10 күн бұрын

@@angelabroom2861 I was not taking insulin while I was on the other drugs. I was taking the other drugs under the care of an endocrinologist. We both agreed not to try any other drugs and to put me back on insulin. I don't have to take very high amounts to keep my blood sugar under control. I also eat a very low carb diet.

I love this topic. I find it funny that eating more fruits and vegetables will give you a sense of being full without eating alot but I guess pills is the future.

I think I’ll preorder the audible book version today - drops tomorrow! Thank you! And Wish you all the best!

Love this, had his book in my Amazon basket. But he lost me when he over glamorised Japan, like many Westerners do, with a rather narrow understanding (methinks only…) The irony is they think anything American is so ‘cool’ most young ppl have gone from miso and fish as breakfast to bread and 🥛.

I'll share my own experience with this class of drug. I've tried Wegovy/Saxenda/Ozempic/Trulicity and can say the worst side effects were from Oz. While I did lose weight on each of these, the most success was on Ozempic but it was not without a cost. I had a hard time going to gym, being active other than biking, walking, and yard work and I couldn't get into lifting. Despite this I felt soreness in some muscles even while a large portion of my weight loss was from muscle loss (Ozempic butt is real). Also weight loss is not guaranteed on any of these meds. Just like a caffeine adapted individual that needs multiple cups to get going vs the typical 1 cup person, if your brain adapts, it can stop. Since I adapt quite quickly to caffeine and other stimulants (I can easily drink several monsters a day and a coffee before bed), it's my working theory that my lifting ceiling on one stimulant might affect the efficacy of this drug. Final point is the x factor or supply and insurance shenanigans. I had to move from Ozempic when suddenly CVS could not fulfil my script and basically told me to source it on my own. I ended up switching to Trulicity while being on waitlists for Wegovy or Ozempic. During that switch (right before Thanksgiving) I ended up regaining about 10 lbs extremely quickly, and without much correlation to intake, which stayed about the same. I heard as much from online groups and was fearful and tried to meet that issue headon, but it was a morale killer to gain 2 lbs overnight, and 5 lbs in a week while eating what noom said should be my weight loss zone. I have regained stability now am working out more regularly than I have been able to in years.

@phunguyen8450

23 күн бұрын

Thank for sharing 🙏🏾

Ozempic injections and I were not a good match. I had pretty bad reactions to it with vomiting like crazy.

1st thing i think is ...2 good to be true or safe can you imagine it perhamently killing your endophine receptors

What is the psychological cause of obesity? Why isn’t this addressed? The experience of stress as an adult, caused by factors like financial insecurity & mental illness, has been linked to an increased risk of obesity. Up to 1/2 of adults attending specialist obesity services may have experienced childhood adversity or trauma in adult life. My family & friends that had weight loss surgery didn’t keep it off & some are now alcoholics w/worse mental health & some starting on Ozempic.

While the Japanese in Japan might not be clinically obese, about 11% of them have Type 2 Diabetes. Asians get diabetes more often than white non-Hispanics do in the US. Over 13% of Japanese have Diabetes or Glucose Intolerance. When I was a practicing midwife, some of the worst cases of Gestational Diabetes were in thin Asian women. GLP-1s are the main treatment for Asians, thin or not, who have diabetes. The dosages will be lower, but the effects are miraculous for the patient with Type 2 Diabetes.

I mean, Ozempic sounds like a good drug and could be used for people with significant problems... but I feel like individual responsibility is probably a better (and healthier) solution. Rather than trying to solve your eating problems (and presumable lethargy problems) with a drug, why not eat healthier and exercise more? Make America a more walkable country so we're encouraged to move more and do healthy things.

@Peekaboo-Kitty

14 күн бұрын

Because Diet is not something they teach you in School, so when you end up a Diabetic like me, the only options available are Medication. 😞

McDonald's cheap?? I went yesterday for an egg mcmuffin and med orange juice...total price 8.50$ glad you can afford to eat here

@davidjackson2832

22 күн бұрын

Yes. I also read the article about $20 big Mac Meal is the norm now.

TIME OUT. Great interview, almost made it to the end without the need to jump in with a quick fact check. 51:30 Okay, yes women have a difficult relationship with the body but um, no. Unless she is trying to abort, no pregnant woman is taking a weight loss pill. Geez, we are brain washed and abused, not stupid.

@HealthAtAnyCost

13 күн бұрын

You are incorrect. Women are _purposefully_ taking GLP-1s to restore their fertility and _are_ taking the risks of not knowing what will happen should they get pregnant on the meds. The recommendations are to stop 2 months before trying to conceive, but that isn't happening. Many women will do _anything_ to have a baby, including not knowing exactly what the future holds for that baby because of their desire. A quick search of "Ozempic Babies Infertility" will drown you in anecdotal stories of conception on GLP-1s and also advice on how to get the meds from your infertility doctor. Women aren't stupid, you are right. We know what we want and we will sometimes do anything to get it.

Andrew, are you aware than Johann has appeared on about half dozen interviews before yours? You should have done some homework and listened to those interviews. If you had done your homework, then you could have asked Johann some original questions. Instead, we just get a rehash of the same stuff that Johann talked about on all the other podcasts. What is the point of this? By the way, I like Johann a lot. I just wish that interviewers could take their job seriously and think of original questions.

@angelabroom2861

10 күн бұрын

You had the option not to watch it. Move on. ...

I’ve had opposite effect, I have depression when I’m not on it. I def believe it’s a brain drug.

so, this book is an ozempic commercial? All this told me is that in 8 years when the patent is expired we will know the side effects and just how good or bad this drug really is. He kept saying their are bad side effects and then never detailed any, just minimized them by saying they don't mean anything to him. Also not one mention of the class action lawsuit for this drug and whether or not it might be part of the side effects he isn't diving into.

@michaelramage73

14 күн бұрын

It been used since 2008. We are past your 8 yr mark.

@jaggeh3340

13 күн бұрын

@@michaelramage73 2017 according to Wiki, Semaglutide wasn't made until 2012. So what were you using in 2008?

Japan has approximately 2,900 McDonald's restaurants nationwide. Yeah, they are all skinny because they have only traditional foods in Japan. Johann is not a serious person, he is a book salesman.

The thing is with this drug it makes you throw up... if you're throwing up all the time of course you're going to lose 20 lb

@moiragallagher5006

25 күн бұрын

My friend takes this, and does not have the vomiting symptom, reports she has never had vomiting induced since starting drug. She is a radiology tech, and knows it delays her gastric emptying, and reduces her dopamine response to food. She said she doesn’t enjoy food as much and now eats a normal portion of food. She used to be a chronic overeater, so for her she feels great on it. Some people get certain symptoms and others don’t. So a blanket statement of this makes you vomit and therefore of course you’ll loose weight is an overstatement and over generalization. However If a person still tries to over eat on this drug it inevitably will induce vomiting. I think the bigger take away is, it makes you need to eat less and/or eat a normal portion.

@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler

25 күн бұрын

@@moiragallagher5006 great...

@angelabroom2861

10 күн бұрын

Wrong. Did you actually listen to ANYTHING he said?

@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler

9 күн бұрын

@@angelabroom2861 my dad tried to take this drug and literally vomited all the time and he's not an overeater... literally couldn't eat anything without vomiting... I don't care what someone says as much as I care about personal viewed experience...

Andrew, I tis time for you to interview alternati e, holistic doctors and have them to talk about the multiple benefits, including weight loss, of berberine and the new more absorbable and bioavsilable form, dihydroberberine. C'mon, it's time to go out of the mainstream hype and that box to look at healthier, more natural, much cheaper remedies. Stop making Big Pharma rich, ok? Get smart and raise your consciousness.

Two NON PHYSICIANS sharing their opinions about medication. Of course, this is NOT the first time either of these men have just honored all of us with their opinions on topics they’re NOT qualified to speak about.

Johann is an industry plant and I’m not even ten minutes in!

Im on the Biden diet...you cant afford donuts, or for that matter...food....at least with Trump, you could afford gas, homes, food..basically quality of life. Under Biden, now im depressed knowing my tax dollars are funding his 3 wars. Illegal immigrants and filling his and his cronies pockets. You had my attention until you brought politics into your discussion.....TRUMP 2024 MAGA!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@PhantomMagician1846

25 күн бұрын

it's just sad that we sent BILLIONS to fund foreign wars instead of using that money to help Americans who have health issues/medical debt/bad or no health insurance

@griffshark

25 күн бұрын

I missed the politics in this. Are you referring to when Johann mentioned the spike in comfort food consumption when Trump was elected?

@josephimperatrice5552

25 күн бұрын

What starving and lack of access to food? Obesity has not become any less of an epidemic under Bidenomics. Under Bidenomics The United States still has the 2nd highest per capita obesity rate in the world, 2nd only to The Pacific Islands just like every other previous U.S president.

You went from a Presidential campaign to talking about Ozempic 🤦‍♂️

@josephimperatrice5552

25 күн бұрын

O O O Ozempic you know never believe it's not so.