Article link, you need to be quick to read them now as they only stay live for 48 hours. If you were at all inclined to have this jab, please read to see the awful side effects.
Thanks interesting read. I had no idea these injections could cause damage to the thyroid. We certainly need better food (the idea of lab created meat sends a shiver up my spine) but I remember reading elsewhere - I think it was about a celebrity who had lost a lot of weight - that this drug slows down the transit of food in the gut and this point is repeated in this article. That alone should cause one to steer clear unless absolutely necessary.
Essentially you're inducing an artificial form of slow gut motility and as anyone unfortunate enough to have spent a significant amount of years living with autoimmune thyroiditis and no diagnosis or treatment knows, it can lead to serious gut dysbiosis and even other autoimmune problems as well as food intolerances and food allergies. You don't want food hanging around in your gut, fermenting.
I could see how it could be tempting though especially if hormonal disruption makes it difficult to lose weight.
I think the biggest no no for me is that if you stop the jab the weight just accumulates again, I wonder how many of the side effects self heal if you stop, I'd wager not all of them. Quick fixes are seldom safe and the fix short lived. Introducing something into you system that isn't meant to be there is really dicing with death imo.
I was prescribed a wonder weight loss drug on the NHS years ago, brand name Reductil. It worked in a similar way to these jabs, reducing appetite, slowing gut transit. It worked well for me I lost about 5 stone.
I have Fibro and being inactive due to pain and fatigue as well as the Fibro medications caused me to pile on the pounds. I wasnt diagnosed as hypo at the time but my TSH even then was always on the high side.
But it was a short term fix, it came out Reductil was unsafe and was linked with heart attacks and strokes and was withdrawn. And the weight returned after I stopped using it. Unfortunately the only way to lose weight safely and keep it off is to eat healthily and exercise. But no one wants to hear it in our instant gratification society.
Very true, we're fed so much disinformation about nutrition that it's hard to know what's right and what isn't. Everyone should invest in their own health because medication is seldom a cure. We really are what we eat, even knowing that I still struggle to stay on plan long enough to lose my excess poundage, half a lifetime of following the bullshit has had its effect on me but I still try. I'm healthier but still fat lol, I weight train and now have muscles but the weight is not budging.
If the medical profession actually took notice when we first presented with obvious hypothyroid symptoms, including weight gain, and treated us accordingly, these situations where weight is impossible to shift might have been prevented in the first bloody place! 🤬
I agree if doctors would just give a damn about the hypo patients they treat maybe we wouldn’t have such a terrible time with our weight…. About 2 months ago I decided I have had enough with carrying my extra person around and I cleaned up my entire diet and added exercise and as I suspected my diet and how much I was eating wasn’t the main culprit behind my weight gain (I have no thyroid and psoriatic arthritis so exercise is difficult).
Anyway I lost only 4 pounds with my dietary and exercise changes… sad
Not only do I have no functioning thyroid left, but I have also developed osteoarthritis in my lower spine and hip (now requiring a hip replacement) due to the extra blubber I’m having to carry around, so I can’t even walk my dog anymore, which used to be my go-to fitness thing… I am so angry because all of this could have been prevented with better treatment at the start. Thankfully,my daughter who was struggling with a TSH of just over 5 has been started on treatment with T4 now because of my history so, perhaps, even if my generation has been screwed over, hers may be treated better… there is hope.
These "wonder" drugs must be so-called because it's a wonder that anyone would take them 😃. I have links that report such drugs for weight loss being prescribed then dropped on medical grounds over many years.
If you need to lose weight, you should see a qualified Nutritional Therapist.
That would depend who trained them. If they trained with the NHS then they're just as like to recommend similar rubbish like Orlistat a side effect of which was instant diarrhoea or to cut fat from your diet. The latest shakes and soups for diabetics might achieve weightloss but how do ready meals train someone to eat the right food?
I think you're referring to dieticians which I totally agree are basically an extension of the NHS so NOT recommended. Also their governing body is "financially influenced" so that's a double-no for dieticians.
Nutritional Therapists are private practitioners and should be BANT-approved bant.org.uk/
Sustainable weight loss isnt just taking something but more scientific than that.
Absolutely agree, nutrition is a science in its infancy afaic, both what you eat and how you eat it is far more important than how many calories. I've completed the Zoe study, what they're finding out via member testing and feedback is showing that it can be complex and complicated. I didn't lose any weight on it, more my fault I think because I struggled to keep to the guidelines, changing how you manage your intake after 50 years was a struggle for me. It is so interesting though.
Never heard of this drug and “all magic comes with a price” stop it and the weight comes back and Im going to bet it comes back with a vengeance as you probably will gain back more then you lost …. So freaking stupid.
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