Dr. Terry Dubrow gave Ozempic a shot — however he neglected out on “the joy of eating.”
“I’ve tried it. I thought it was amazing. I … didn’t have that much weight to lose,” Dubrow, 65, instructed Web page Six. “But I wanted to try it because so many of my patients were on it and I wanted to see what it was like when you’re not diabetic and you only have 10-15 pounds to lose.”
Whilst he nonetheless helps the drugs, he didn’t really feel the unwanted effects have been definitely worth the praise. Along with “low-grade nausea,” the Botched celebrity misplaced hobby in meals. “I thought, ‘You know what, I kind of want to get my appetite back. The holidays are coming, I want to enjoy myself,’” he defined.
The plastic surgeon, who's married to The Actual Housewives of Orange County celebrity Heather Dubrow, famous that Ozempic “really took … all the joy of eating away.”
Dubrow added, “You go on vacation, maybe you don’t exercise, you eat too much. It was kind of like, ‘Well, I want to go on a food vacation,’ meaning I want to be able to eat again.”
Along with in need of to experience meals on the vacations, Dubrow additionally had to be off the semaglutide injections if he sought after a Christmas cocktail.
“You can’t drink on it,” he stated. “You’ve got to be really careful with alcohol because people are being put in the hospital with pancreatitis.”
Whilst Ozempic isn’t proper for Dubrow, he nonetheless thinks it’s an enormous leap forward that may lend a hand many of us.
In August, he solely instructed Us Weekly concerning the certain results of the injections, which have been designed to regard Sort 2 diabetes.
“These Ozempic-type drugs aren’t the new Botox. They’re better. They’re Botox, liposuction, breast augmentation, facelifts,” Dubrow shared with Us. “Put it all together, and you’ve got a drug that’s not only making people look better and feel better, it’s treating the No. 1 risk factor for heart disease, diabetes and cancer. So, this is an incredibly powerful positive thing that is truly the most significant, I think, medical breakthrough in history.”
Some celebrities have spoken out about the use of Ozempic and different an identical drugs to temporarily drop a few pounds — and lots of face backlash. Then again, Dubrow sought after to “stop immediately the ozempic-shaming,” noting that medical doctors want other people to talk obviously and appropriately about their reviews at the drug.
“Listen, we don’t know how to use these miracle weight loss drugs in non-diabetics particularly. We don’t know how to use them in patients who only have five to 20 pounds to lose. So we need to share our experiences,” Dubrow defined to Us. “We’re learning as the patients are learning what the side effects really are. … So it’s really an exciting time, but it’s also a very scary time. It’s gonna change the very nature of our bodies and what’s happening with our physiology. And it’s a new frontier. It’s exciting, but it’s also very dangerous.”