Why Ozembic is Dangerous to Your Health (Q&A with Dr. Sal)

Dr. Sal [00:00:00]:

Realize that your gift that you have every morning when you wake up that you are breathing, that your heart is is is pumping that blood throughout your body, that your kidneys are functioning properly, that your gastrointestinal system is moving all that toxic waste out of you as well as digesting the foods, and monitoring your health through the gut bacteria. These are the gifts that were given to us. Welcome to the Health Quest podcast, your guide to God's will for good health. Hello. My name is doctor Sal, and I've been practicing surgeon for well over 30 years. And my goal for each episode is that you'll be able to have your mind transformed to God's design for your good health and hopefully change and affect the way you eat and the way you live. If you're new here, we release a new episode every week. And if you enjoy the content, would you please leave us a good review? It really helps our ratings and allows our show to reach more people, which in turn can help them as far as regaining their health.

Dr. Sal [00:01:13]:

We'd like to thank you so much for your support. And on today's episode, we're basically gonna be answering questions that people have sent in through our web page. So let's dive right into today's Healthquest podcast. 1st question comes from Linda from Detroit. Dear doctor Sal, I've been having Some issues with migraines and have lately have had trouble. I've been seeing a number of neurologists and unable to find A good source is to keeping it under control. I have been bedridden on 2 separate occasions. Could you please Advise.

Dr. Sal [00:01:56]:

Signed Linda from Detroit. Number of podcasts ago, we did talk about migraine and its detriment and how it affects people. You said that you were down in a couple of, occasions where, you were down for a number of days. The key to getting something like this because what we're seeing today that we didn't see years ago, Back in the forties, we started using antidepressants to treat chronic pain issues. Now the problem with antidepressants is over For a long period of time, it does start to alter the concentration of the neurotransmitters. So in doing that, they could alter these neurotransmitters so that the antidepressants don't work that well anymore. With that, we've come up with new medications and neurologists have tried them. But what's happening now and what I believe to be happening is a rebound effect from All of these medications, whether they're antidepressants, pain medications, we talked about at one point having anti seizure medications to try to help with reducing this.

Dr. Sal [00:03:08]:

As as we talked about in our previous podcast, There's there's a neurologic disorder that's happening, and I believe that it's an imbalance in the way the neurotransmitters are being sent throughout the brain, and throughout the nervous system and it's causing a short circuiting of the brain which then alludes to the pain that's associated with it. Of course, there's the various stages of it, and there's associated symptoms like your auras, your blurred vision. You can have the one side Eye that could be paralyzed or, change in sensitivity to one side. So there's a variety of different types. But when the pain gets to the point where you are bedridden for 2, 3 days or you're getting 15 headaches a month and makes you unable to get through your daily routines, this is how it starts to affect the quality of our lives. Now my recommendations to not only you but to a number of other patients is is that you've gotta develop a good relationship with their neurosurgeon. There are things where you could do IV vitamin therapies, and they could use medications too to help settle the the migraine. Dihydroergotamine is being used.

Dr. Sal [00:04:27]:

Some of the, bigger universities like, University of Michigan, Henry Ford, And even Beaumont has a dihydroergotamine, treatment plan. It's a 72 hour plan, so you have to be admitted to the hospital where they give you Dihydroergotamine to get that status micronosis, which means it's an intractable headache that just doesn't wanna go away to get it to to shut down. And, of course, it's a IV therapy that's 72 hours. You have to have a neurologist that has Hospital privileges that they can get you in right away as opposed to going through the ER and then hopefully getting one of the to do the IV therapy for you, you could wait 12, 13 hours before you're actually seen by emergency room physician. That, to me, is uncalled for in today's modern world because if you have a good relationship with a neurologist, he should be able to get you in, admit you, get you up to the floor with orders and instructions as to what you need, and they can get that started within a couple of hours. The neurologist should also have these Available in their office settings as well as, nerve blocks that have been very effective. There Our certain surgical procedures is a gentleman down in Cleveland, Ohio who's a plastic surgeon that actually discovered this by accident and doing forehead lifts and loosening the nerves that are that, derive the effects of the muscle and the station to that front part of your scalp. And he opens up the foramens or the openings to these nerves, and there's less tension on the nerve and it helps improve that.

Dr. Sal [00:06:10]:

So the objective is is you have to have a good relationship, An open door policy with a neurologist such that if it gets out of control now, of course, you have to have a plan, reduce inflammation, go on a ketogenic diet, stay on low carbs because sugars is, like everything else, it basically fuels inflammation or the fire of inflammation. And inflammation can be irritating to the brain and to the neurologic tissue as well. Taking, supplements like magnesium, higher dosages of magnesium for preventative reasons, and have medications. Now we have, the calcitonin, related gene therapy, which is The peptide that you get a shot once a month just to prevent this from occurring. So, so, yes, it's the, calcitonin gene related peptide, which is the shot that you that your neurologist should be able to give you. You should have some steroids at hand so that if it does break out, you can get on some steroids to reduce the inflammation. You could have, some of the, the amitriptyline that we were talking about in the podcast of that you could take as an abortive Medication. So when you start feeling the migraine come on, you could take it and hopefully get it under control.

Dr. Sal [00:07:32]:

Again, I think the most important aspect is the relationship that you have with the neurologist, and they have to be available to you or their clinic has to be available to do these IVs or these nerve blocks, change your medications on the spot, develop the relationship so that even if on the weekends you need to go to the emergency room or to the hospital, that they have privileges to get you in, bypass all the baloney that takes place so that you so they can get you treated right away. I know that it's pretty debilitating and gets you in bed, and you're not able to get up or eat or do anything. And so My apologies that you have this, but again, I think the best thing to do is to develop that relationship with your neurologist. Okay. So the next question, it was sent in from Karen from Houston, Texas. Doctor Sal, I wanna lose 40 pounds, and I noticed a lot of my friends are now taking the Ozempic to lose the weight. I've tried everything else and nothing seems to work. I would like to take the Ozempic, and I'd like to ask your opinion as to what you think of it.

Dr. Sal [00:08:47]:

There's no thinking on this one, folks. This is basically a no no, and I'm gonna tell you why. Ozempic is used as a medication to treat type 2 diabetes. And really, the true cheap treatment And to type 2 diabetes is to get off of all your carbs and all your sugars, and start getting on an exercise program. That's the ultimate cure for it. We believe that you know, we're we're told all this or we create this idea that it's genetic and it's hereditary and it's all You know, it's your hormones. That's not the case. It's the way we're eating.

Dr. Sal [00:09:24]:

Now the problem with Ozempic is that it is a synthetic form of a natural hormone that's produced in our intestinal lining called semiglutide. And semaglutide is like leptin that we talked about in our previous podcast. Leptin is the hormone that's secreted by the fat cells that tells our body that we've eaten enough, stop eating, we're full, we don't need to eat for another 6 hours or so. Semiglutide does the same thing. When we eat, the intestinal lining secretes it, and it goes to the brain, and it tells our hunger centers of the brain that we don't need to eat anymore. We're completely full. So Ozempic is basically a synthetically modified version of semaglutide. And as a result of that, this is where all the side effects come in.

Dr. Sal [00:10:16]:

Because if you take the natural Form of semaglutide, which you can get. You can get the natural form. Now it's not FDA approved, and it can't be FDA approved because of the fact that it's a naturally occurring product, and naturally occurring products cannot be FDA approved or you can't get a patent on it. Pharmaceutical companies modify the molecule. It's a modified version of semiglutide, and now they're saying, okay, this is what used for diabetics, But now everybody's on it because they wanna lose the weight. What does it do and how does it react? It basically suppresses your appetite. Number of years ago, we had a number of appetite suppressants of which were taken off the market because of the complications. The only thing we have left is atapex, and it works as a stimulant which curtails your appetite.

Dr. Sal [00:11:04]:

Well, that's what semaglutide does. It increases your insulin levels, which are, over time, is gonna create more insulin resistance. And so you're gonna still be type 2 diabetic anyways or eventually get there faster. What semiglutide does is it decreases your appetite. But what do they tell you not to do. Well, don't eat greasy fried foods, which we talked about on one of our podcast, because those are trans fats which causes atherosclerosis. Right? The healthy fats, even if you eat fat from a cow or animal fat or butter or milk fat, those are not bad for you. And doctor Kumar, back in the fifties, proved that.

Dr. Sal [00:11:46]:

So they're telling you not to eat Fried foods, which we advocate to do that just to lose weight and for good overall cardiovascular health. Number 2, they tell you not to eat sugary foods or drinks. Well, if that's the case and you got rid of the the bad fats and the sugary foods and a and and a and a carbohydrates like starchy vegetables like corn and and and potatoes, guess what? You're just gonna lose weight naturally. The key is is that how do you deal with a hunger pain? Folks, this is where you line up your will with God's will. Because by knowing that what you're doing is healthy for you and this is what god wants for you because good health comes at a price, and that is is you can't eat that junk food. You know, the problem is is that we're eating throughout the day, and we don't even know that we're eating that stuff. I heard those you know, the old Line, oh, I eat like a bird. And we used to say, oh, yeah.

Dr. Sal [00:12:42]:

24 hours a day. And you're gonna put on weight. Oh, I I put on weight just looking at water. Alright. Let's put you in an environment where that's all we feed you is water for 40 days, and we'll see if you don't lose weight. So The problem here is getting through the hunger issues. And what I try to tell everybody to do is when you get hungry, go take a walk, go do some push ups, Go do something to preoccupy your mind. On top of that, you're doing some exercise which is actually beneficial to your body.

Dr. Sal [00:13:12]:

So The idea that to take something like that, when you could take the natural and there are alternative physicians out there that use the natural semiglutide. But then again, the beauty of that is is they know how to put you on other supplements that works with a semiglutide like resveratrol, Certain b vitamins like vitamin b 6 and also taking some extra, NMN, which is your Nicotinamide Mononucleotide, which helps improve the energy levels. Resveratrol is protective against breast cancer as well. And now what you've done is you've reduced your appetite naturally with the supplements increasing metabolism using natural supplements. So that would be the way to go. What are the side effects of the Ozempic? Well, number 1, it slows down, the gut as far as sending food. So now people are becoming constipated, and they get impacted. So what do you have to do when you get impacted? Well, you're gonna have Get some enemas or somebody's gonna have to go up there with a finger, which I've done years ago, when I was in general surgery, especially these elderly people because you gotta pull that stuff out of there.

Dr. Sal [00:14:24]:

It's so impacted. It's like a rock. They're like bricks trying to get that out of there. But more so than that, when it starts to slow it down, what ends up happening is that the more fecal material you hold on to for a longer period of time, the more toxins you're gonna reabsorb and get back into the system. So doing that is not healthy. Some of the other side effects is that it affects the the pancreas and the gallbladder. So a lot of these people end up having gallbladder and pancreatic especially pancreatitis. And the reason being is because it's trying to stimulate your pancreas to put out more insulin to lower your blood sugar levels, and that's how we treat the so called type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Sal [00:15:06]:

But overall, the more insulin you start to secrete over time, that's going to eventually result in, insulin resistance, which is gonna lead to type 2 diabetes anyways. There is an ongoing process right now with a lawsuit that they're trying to build up because the people that developed all these gastrointestinal type of, side effects that they wanna sue the company. But why even go there? And I I told somebody they didn't need it. They wouldn't they took it anyways, and now, oh, I wanna sue them. Well, it was your fault for taking it because you're the one that finally makes that decision in the end to take the other thing is is the psychological impact that it has. It causes anxiety and causes fear, and it's now starting to show that people become suicidal while on it. Why do you wanna, again, take something that just to lose some weight when all you gotta do is do what bodybuilders do. We we diet and we exercise like crazy to get rid of all that fat and maintain all that muscle mass.

Dr. Sal [00:16:05]:

Now Now you could say, well, yeah, but they take anabolic steroids. Okay. But they're still working hard. You could take all the anabolic steroids you want, but if you're gonna eat garbage food, you're still gonna look fat. And so you're not gonna have those well defined muscles by eating junk food. You have to diet and you have to exercise. And the best way to go is to learn how to do this because, again, When you face those challenges, remember what we talked about. It resets your whole neural network.

Dr. Sal [00:16:37]:

And this is how the Holy Spirit works through us physiologically. I'm explaining it scientifically how the Holy Spirit you're facing your fears, you're facing your challenges, You're taking on the challenges, and you're doing everything in a disciplined fashion. Of course, we use the word discipline because that's god d word, and Satan's d word is distraction, constantly getting distracted. You're not even paying attention, and you're putting food in your mouth. So if you start to become aware and you become cognizant and you become conscious of what you're doing and realize that you're doing it because you're taking care of the gift of life that god gave you, now you put yourself on the path to resetting your neural networks, creating new habits which are actually healthier for you than And to go off and take some pharmaceutical drug because it's a drug. I don't care if you call it medicine. It's a drug to lose weight, which should be something And that should be natural for us knowing that, first of all, you should've never gotten 40, 50 pounds overweight. You should've never gotten a 120 pounds overweight.

Dr. Sal [00:17:40]:

So you've got To take a look at saying, what am I doing here and what am I taking? One of the other things I wanted to say too that, it also, has a high incidence of thyroid tumors. So now you wanna mess up your thyroid gland. So folks, Karen, you do not have my blessings on taking Ozempic. Find an alternative doctor that can give you the natural Semiglutide, of course, is gonna put you on a a diet and other supplements that go along with it to improve your metabolism, Get into the habit of eating well and then exercising regularly. When you start noticing you put on a couple of extra pounds, that means you gotta cut back on the Food intake over the next couple days. See that as your bank account. Don't spend more than you're saving. It's gonna get you into trouble.

Dr. Sal [00:18:29]:

In this particular case, don't eat more than your body really needs and eat the healthy stuff and stay away from the junk food. Folks, there's no better way to to stay close with God than to realize that your gift that you have every morning when you wake up that you are breathing, that your heart is is is pumping that blood throughout your body, that your kidneys are functioning properly, that your gastrointestinal system is moving all that toxic waste out of you as well as digesting the foods and monitoring your health through the gut bacteria. These are the gifts that were given to us. And I can go on and on and on with a 100 trillion different cells and the reactions that take place all controlled by the creator. I mean, this This this is the real miracle, and we should be grateful for it. But we should also take care of it through our own volition, our own will lined up with that of god's doing that, I guarantee you, you'll be happier. You'll develop better quality skills in maintaining your health. You'll change your life.

Dr. Sal [00:19:36]:

Your outlook will be that much better. This is the whole objective of the podcast. So I wanna thank you very much For joining us and watching our show today, if you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a good review and visit our website and social media accounts to connect with us more. If you happen to have any questions about your health regarding this episode, my email will be in the description below, and I'll be happy to answer any of your questions. And if you would like to see any of the sources Research in this episode will be available to you in the show notes in the description. Until next time. I'm doctor Sal, have a great day, and god bless.