Weight and Weight-Loss Drugs

Gaining weight is not just “eating too much,” and losing weight is not just “eating less.” The idea of counting calories is wrong: what decides whether a calorie is stored as fat are the hormones, the mitochondria, the gut bacteria and the toxins. And the new weight-loss drugs (like Ozempic) are another trap. This chapter is based on the work of A Midwestern Doctor.

Why we gain weight (it is not just calories)

The mitochondria (the cell’s power plants) have to burn the calories; if they are damaged — mainly by seed oils and by electromagnetic fields — you gain weight even eating little. Hormones matter more than calories: excess estrogen is what most makes you gain weight (in men and women), and lack of testosterone is second. Stress raises cortisol and stores fat in the belly.

The bad gut bacteria make you fat and, besides, create cravings for sugar and junk food (they are estimated to cause 30% to 40% of cravings): they eat processed food, multiply and demand more. And there is a curious thing: you get “sensitized” to certain foods, which send the body the signal to store fat for 4 or 5 days; if you eat them more than once a week, you gain weight even eating little. Aspartame (the sweetener in “diet” sodas) is one that fattens most; that is why those who drink diet soda tend to gain more weight.

Add to this the toxins that fatten (the “obesogens”): corn syrup, plastics (BPA), pesticides and environmental estrogens (from soy, plastics, birth-control pills in the water). And electromagnetic fields: in a Kaiser study, the children of women with more exposure during pregnancy had 6 times more obesity as teenagers.

Ozempic and the weight-loss drugs

Ozempic and its relatives (GLP-1 drugs) make you lose weight because they slow digestion and remove hunger. The problem is twofold. First, they are dangerous: they have been linked to 9 times more pancreatitis, bowel obstruction, stomach paralysis (gastroparesis), loss of muscle and of facial fat (the “Ozempic face”), thyroid cancer (the label itself says so) and more suicidal thoughts. Second, they cure nothing: as soon as you stop the drug, two out of three people regain the weight. It costs about 1,000 dollars a month and costs less than 5 to make: the perfect business, a customer forever.

The same thing already happened with “fen-phen” in the 1990s: first a craze, and years later it was found to damage the heart valves; the makers paid more than 13 billion dollars in lawsuits. History repeats itself.

How to really lose weight

Get processed foods, seed oils, corn syrup and aspartame out of your life. Eat real food, fresh and varied, with a good balance of fat, protein and some natural carbohydrate. Discover which foods make you gain weight (remove them and observe), and rotate what you eat so you do not become sensitized. Fast (see the chapter on cures). Fix the gut bacteria. Lower your exposure to electromagnetic fields and to the estrogens in plastics.

And do not obsess over being thin: it is proven that people slightly overweight live longer than the too-thin. The goal is health, not the number on the scale.

To learn more (sources in English)

The great Ozempic scam (and the safest way to lose weight): https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-ozempic-scam-and-the-safest

Why do foods make us gain weight?: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-do-foods-make-us-gain-weight