Kurt Jan, from Kent, was one of many first folks on this planet to participate within the trials of semaglutide. It’s offered as Wegovy for weight-loss and as Ozempic for diabetes, though some folks have been shopping for this model to shed weight.
Everyone knows any individual like Jan, who has tried each food plan, and she or he has been battling her waistline her entire life.
Semaglutide mimics a hormone that’s launched once we eat. It methods the mind into pondering we’re full and dials down urge for food so we eat much less.
As soon as Jan began having the injections, her relationship with meals was so transformational that she instructed me it was both right down to the drug or “I have been kidnapped by aliens”.
For the primary time she might go into a restaurant, see some millionaire’s shortbread and never have her physique screaming, “I want one”.
As a substitute it was, “I do not really feel hungry… my physique was saying you don’t need it, it wasn’t me utilizing willpower,” she says.
The outcomes of semaglutide are plain – no less than for some time.
On common, individuals who had been overweight misplaced about 15% of their physique weight, exterior when taking semaglutide alongside wholesome life-style recommendation in a trial. Word this isn’t a “skinny jab” – 15% takes you from 20 stone right down to 17.
That research confirmed the burden got here off over the primary yr after which stabilised for the remaining three months of the trial. We have no idea what occurs when folks take the drug for years.
Jan misplaced 28kg (greater than 4 stone). It meant she might lastly take pleasure in her sixtieth birthday current – a flight in a Tiger Moth aeroplane, having been over the utmost weight restrict earlier than. “I used to be flying in additional methods than one, and boy did I take pleasure in it.”
