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Hey, good morning
to you, Cardi.
How you doing, man?
Man, I'm feeling very good today, man.
I just want to extend a warm welcome and birthday wish to my wife, man.
Miss Miss Dee Dee.
Glisper, man.
She's doing pretty good, man.
She turns 31 today.
Well, happy birthday to your to
your bride and 31 31.
Can I even think back that far?
But anyway, man, congratulations and happy birthday.
It's Thursday, and that means we are officially in the pharmacy with the one and only Dr. Omar, the pharmacist.
Good morning to you, Dr. Omar.
How are you doing, sir?
Good morning, Earl.
I'm doing great.
How are you today?
I'm doing... I'm melancholy.
I'm like the weather.
Yeah, you know it is.
Well, I say the weather of prepping is but the weather is prepping for the summer.
What can I tell
you?
Yeah.
Well, you can you can say that because you're constantly out of the weather and into some warm weather where the sun is shining.
It really does matter, doesn't it?
It does matter for sure.
Everything matters there, you know, how you feel about the day matters.
But I think the warmth of our hearts can get us through because you just get from the car to the building, from the building to the car, wherever you're going.
It is important to have like exercising and going out and seeing the sun.
All of this helps for sure.
But we have to always look at the pros and cons of every place we live in, right?
You know, Dr. Omar, you and I are going to have a conversation, you know, that we constantly have, and this is this ongoing battle that we have with weight and how to lose weight, how to keep it off.
And the battle is always, you know, predicated on the fact that we watch television.
and they've got all of these things that they show you to get you to buy them.
And at the root of all of it is money.
They're not concerned about whether or not it's healthy for you or not.
You know, I mean, I used to look at, they have the triple burgers, triple pound burger.
Look, three, three, three pound burgers or whatever it's called, three, I don't know, what do you call them?
What is it three?
Three ounces or what?
I don't know.
Oh, yeah, pounds.
Yeah, quarter, three, quarter pound, three, three, three times.
And you got these big, sloppy burgers and grease is running off of them and there's cheese on them.
Dr. Omar and man, and it just, oh man, it looks great, right?
And you're looking at that and you're saying,
Wow, man, I had to get one of those.
But you don't realize it's not good for you.
It is the problem is like when you leave your work and you go home, you have to think how many fast food chain I'm going to stop by, how many Dave's hot chicken, how many... Yeah, it's just like...
A lot, right?
You don't see a lot of places telling broccoli on your way home.
So, you know?
So all of this noise in your head that tell you, like, I want to eat quarter pounder when I go home, it's for a reason.
You covet what you see every day.
You want to have this delicious burger because you see a lot of commercials on it.
And that is one of the problems we're having.
And one of the problems that are being solved by the injectable geopelan agonists is that it helps to stop the noise of the food in our heads.
And when we are under stress, when we're not sleeping enough and we
are malnourished and we go through this kind of VIO dieting, I'm going to go between not eating for long hours and then suddenly binging eating for like whatever and then decide oh and now I'm going to decide to lose weight because I saw this kind of ad on that program.
Moving between like inconsistent ways of living, get us to what I call
It's a term that talks about metabolic inflammation that was first coined and used I think 2006 or 2007 in the research about how the low-grade inflammation in our bodies keep building until it gives us results of diabetes, cardiovascular events, and being obese and overweight.
And then we start to look for the solution, but to find one solution, we have to look at the layers of the health problems that we have been accumulating over the years, and the solution is not going to happen in one or two weeks.
So it needs patience, understanding, looking at the whole scope of our health, and then we can find solutions to our health crisis.
You know, Dr. Omar, it's...
The longer you live the more you realize yeah when you're younger you can kind of get away with some of those things Your system is fresh and it's working like a well oiled machine I guess it's just like an automobile when you first buy that beautiful car and You make sure you put all the right things in it.
You're not putting cheap gas in it You're making sure you're getting the oil change on time and
You're making sure the tires are, it's a brand new automobile.
And so you're cognizant of what you need to keep it operating at its peak, you know, at its peak.
So
it
is with your body, I guess.
You know, the older we get, you know, we just, we're not able to get away with the things.
that we were able to get away with when we were younger.
Is that how it goes?
Yeah, our body is resistant enough to a lot of the metabolic changes that we do, a lot of the insults that we incur over the years.
And then at a certain point, you just kind of have a cup that you're overflowing with problems.
And then suddenly, you're just kind of in the Grand Canyon and only one push.
gonna put you down.
So you have to kind of stop and look back and not worry about opening this door that's going to show you the real issues that you're going through.
So that's why don't seek the solution to your problem with just a prescription.
Seek for seeing the full picture of your health and then you can
you can do something and you have to start today and you start today by looking at the future not just looking at the past what you failed on doing look at the present moment and the future you in one and two and five years you're going to find a lot of a lot of things that you can do because everyone that achieved something was in a dark spot someday but they looked at the future and the present moment and they found how much they can do
You know, Dr. Omar, what is this?
This is March.
We're heading towards April.
People made all these commitments.
I'm going to get healthy this year at the beginning of the new year.
I'm going to eat right.
I'm going to work out.
I'm going to do all those things.
Well, those resolutions have long since passed.
And so people really had good intentions when they said those things.
but it's more than a notion to get healthy, right?
Yeah.
It's more than a notion to get healthy.
Being healthy, you can't translate it to happiness.
Because if you're healthy, your body is healthy, you're mentally healthy, your soul is healthy, so it's kind of systems.
It's not just to overcome high blood pressure or lower your A1C.
being healthy, we can translate it in today's terms of physical living.
It's very, very precious and we have to do everything we can to stay healthy.
And I see people investing tremendous amount of money to get this injection or this new pill or this new medication that will help them with their headaches.
And then there might be simpler, cheaper solutions, but they need more productivity.
in order to get them going and sometimes it's just we have to measure your magnesium and we see that you have no magnesium because you don't eat any leafy greens or any kind of vegetables so we have to get you some of those.
So just figuring out what's going on is very important and that's why I tell patients who are seeking health to always start with
getting direction of making the right assessment, the right labs.
If I'm going to do for exercising and I have failed in exercising for the last 20 years, I need some guidance.
I need a coach.
I need an app, something to do different, you know?
You know, Dr. Omar, we're turning the page.
Spring is on the horizon.
And so this is a good time, right?
I guess every time
is a good
time, right?
To commit to changing your lifestyle.
Of course, of course, every time is right time.
I think we are in the change of the season's time that people are seeking new ways of living and do some changes.
And also we have some disturbing news about affordability of injectables for many, many people.
So figuring out other ways to stay healthy, other ways for people who are overweight to lose weight.
That is something like it's a good topic to explore and find solutions.
All right, we're certainly going to delve deeper into that.
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Dr. Omar, how can people get in touch with you?
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they can send us, go to WiltopiaRx.com and send us a message.
So you talk about, and one of the things that we certainly were going to talk about today is the fact that these compounded injections that people were, Manjaro, Wegovi, and the other names of those different meds that can
Lower your a1c and and and and certainly cause you to lose some weight Are now going to be kind of you know taking off the market Unless you have to pay for them yourself
There was like shortage There was shortage and that shortage from the manufacturing drugs of the commercially available medications That shortage is being covered now
especially for the newer molecule, there's a pitide.
There is something called a molecular patent on that third appetite.
If the shortage goes away, no one can make or sell this molecule.
So there's going to be only the Mungaro and the zip bound, and these are expensive drugs to get outside of the insurance, putting into consideration that many times the insurance doesn't cover these drugs, the prices go
uh a thousand dollars plus to get it for
a month supply yeah one
month so yeah patients were able to get the cheaper compounded version during the shortage that's like ending now and they were paying maybe 250 300 dollars per month which was affordable for many people people were losing weight and then suddenly this is taken away and now we're freaking out what to do
without these medications seeking alternatives and What I want to tell you is that big big thing of how these medications work is that they just stop the noise of food That you know, I'm hungry.
I want to eat so they make you eat less make the food move slower in your GI and that helps you to lose weight reality of thing early is that You can achieve results
with addressing the core issue of your problem by looking at what I call the system biology approach.
The gut health, what's happening in my gut?
Do I have problem with what's called leaky gut food like particles are moving and causing inflammation in my body?
Do I have issues in the gut that need to be fixed?
Do I need more fiber?
Do I have IDS and Crohn's?
Do I have any of those gut issues that help us to extract nutrients from the foods that we eat?
Do I have food sensitivities, food allergies that I am not addressing and I'm just eating?
So that gets to be an important thing.
Do I have challenges in my immune system, what I call immune imbalances?
Because there are inflammatory markers, if I lower them down, my body will be less inflamed.
so that immunity gets to be big important and making sure that I am in balance.
There is the hormonal component, so are my hormones balanced, especially for perimenopause and menopause women?
If they don't have enough estrogen and progesterone, that's going to cause them problems in weight loss and anxiety, sleep issues.
Then there is insulin and blood sugar.
and A1C numbers that we can see creeping up every time we do the test with the doctor.
All right, so lifestyle then kicks in.
And how many hours do I get from sleep?
And if I'm not sleeping enough, my A1C is going up and I'm gonna type two diabetes.
So all of these things to compile it and say I'm going to take an injection, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
And that's why I tell people it's time to do fresh lab work and kind of seek help for what else you can do beyond the injection to face your real issues with weight management, which is a healthier lifestyle that's going to make you see yourself in a better, healthier way.
You know, Dr. Omar, it's
It's certainly one of those things that, you know, people, it's not easy, right?
I mean, none of this is easy.
You're changing your lifestyle that you've grown accustomed to sometimes for over decades.
And people want to do the right thing, the willpower aspect of it.
is I guess where a lot of it is, it's kind of lost, right?
I mean, it's easier to go ahead, you look at things and you say, well, I've been working at this and I'm trying and I've lost a couple ounces.
So it's easy to get frustrated.
It is easy to get frustrated.
But I want to tell you about a patient I met yesterday.
He came and he's obese.
So why don't you do this, Dr. Omar?
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Dr. Omar, how can people get in touch with you?
People can always give us a call at 2624299429 or go to willtopiarx.com.
And while we're on the airwaves, you can always call and have a conversation with Dr. Omar over the air.
Let's go to Ali from Northwoods.
Hey, good morning to you, Ali.
You say what?
Good morning.
I have a question for the doctor.
What would he recommend for somebody who has lymphedema and chronic joint pain?
Would he recommend lab work or something, a particular lab?
So, you know Ali when you call you should turn your radio down because you sometimes you hear that in the background But you're okay.
He heard you.
Dr. Oma
So lymphoedema is like it's a condition that has swelling in the lymphatic fluid buildup All right can open happens in the arms and the legs, right?
So the challenge is the management of reducing the swelling improving the circulation
and complications.
So it's very important to refer to a doctor who's going to be a vein specialist to see where is the lymphatic swelling that is happening and to find the best solution for ongoing to prevent the complications.
So there are these specialists who are vein specialists and there are several centers of them in Wisconsin and in other states
but that's where I would refer them first to know what's actually going on, to get clear imaging of how complicated it is, and then we would seek ways of reducing swelling, improving circulation, and that can happen with medications and supplements and also properly fitted compression garments to prevent worsening of the swelling.
Okay.
Thank you very much for
your help.
Hey Ali, thank you very much for the call.
Thank you for listening.
So Dr. Omar, when you're talking about these, these, uh, Ozympic Manjaro and all these other, uh, miracle drugs that have come into vogue here recently, and you talked about the compounding of them.
Is there any withdrawal symptoms?
Uh,
Main withdrawal symptoms of stopping the medication is going to be the noise of food coming back and people will eat more often.
And the only way that they were using in order to lose weight is going to be going away.
So the challenges like these medications are meant to work as you take them for weight loss.
If you stop it, you don't lose weight anymore.
But if we have approached it,
the GLP1 agonists from the idea of I want to manage my hormones, my stress, my gut health, my sleep cycle.
And I found that one, two, three, four, five, number five or number three is I'm going to use the medication, but one, two, three is going to include eating healthier diet that's kind of guided by a dietitian.
not just kind of eating broccoli or something because diet and eating psychology is much deeper than that.
So guidance is very important.
So diet, exercise, you need guidance on exercising and you don't have to have a personal trainer every time that you train.
There are kind of training apps that are wonderful.
I have to have clear lab work for what's going on.
clear complete blood count, thyroid function, hormonal function, and many other lists of lab work that is needed to see the nutrition deficiencies.
If there is any mold toxins or any heavy metal toxicity that need to be addressed.
What I want to tell you in simple terms is that these medications were meant to be a kickstart for a weight loss program, but they're not the end game.
And with many doctors, actually, the patients don't go above the first or the second tier of the dosing because they're doing some other things that help their body.
So if you are taking Monjaro or Terzopetide 2.5 or 5 milligram, which is starting two doses, many people don't want to go or don't need to go beyond the 5 milligram because they are already losing weight.
And if they stop,
there is a replacement program to help them.
So I think for people who are going to stop these medications due to coast, I would recommend that they would seek help from functional medicine practitioner to figure out what else we can do because we have a lot of options but they are all customizable herbs and there are other supplements and medications that help to stop the noise of food.
but they're just what works for you, is not going to work for me.
And that's why we tell people, okay, it's not the end of the road for your weight loss, because these medications were meant to help you to start a journey.
And actually I have many people who are calling me and telling me, you know what, we started this program, we wanted to take the Mungaru and Uzimpec for only a few months, but now we are on our own and we could keep the weight that we lost.
because we have identified that we had problems in our hormones that needed to be balanced and we finally got our hormones balanced.
So I would tell a woman on her prime years of 55 and 60, if you balance your estrogen and progesterone and testosterone, you're going to live the best days of your life.
You're going to have a sharp mind, you'll be able to lose weight, you'll be able to sleep well, less anxiety.
and the key is going to be balancing your hormones.
So I'm talking about system of body, not just a health condition.
You know, Dr. Omar, is it safe to say, you know, people are addicted to alcohol, they're addicted to drugs, they're addicted to a lot of different things.
Can you be addicted to food?
That's what we're having.
Yes, and this is a planned and programmed because we see the food commercials everywhere Like as I told you like you leave your your work you go to everywhere and then you see all of these fast food chains that keeps the image in your brain food food food and they're very delicious and there are scientists that create the most delicious M&Ms and the most delicious this and that so we are all addicted
to food, unfortunately, and going against this addiction needs a lot of work.
I use just a quick story.
I was coming back from a three-day trip to my four kids and my wife, and I told them, and I told them, I got for you sweets.
Everyone has sweets, and they were so happy.
So I went inside, and I gave my first child, here's an apple.
Second child, here's a peach.
30 child.
Here's a carrot.
They were looking at me.
What are you doing, dad?
This is not sweets.
I told them, you know what?
You're not going shopping with me again.
And, you know, four days later, they ate all of the fruits and vegetables that I bought, because that's what was in the house.
So, you know, I'm not, I consider this a stuff love.
I don't want to buy them sweets because I see the implications of
of diabetes and what it can cause to our generation.
Like 30 years ago, 20 years ago, you would go to a classroom and you would just see just one child that's overweight and everyone would be picking on them.
Now you enter the classroom and you see half the class are overweight because of that kind of delicious food addictions that we've been programming our generations to come on.
Right,
you know, you know, dr. Omar the eight five five seven five two forty eight forty two is the number you're officially in the pharmacy with dr. Omar the pharmacist and the proprietor of well topia pharmacy in mecca on themesville, you know, you really the way you lay it out You know Thirty years ago you contracted diabetes.
It was a death sentence, right?
Yeah
And even today, once they say you have diabetes, it takes the wind out of your sails.
And you begin to think everything is a downward spiral from that point on.
And you say, well, listen, I didn't intentionally.
do these things to myself but it happened to me and now and now you know for the rest of my life I've got to I've got to walk this tightrope because really that's kind of what it is if you don't if you don't understand what it is right I mean if you you talked about all the different stages all the different things
different aspects of your body and the systems in your body that impact and affect the fact that you now have diabetes and All of those different systems you've got to be aware of and and how and how they're working is that is it safe to say that?
Yeah, and it is not easy airless.
That's why we need guidance because it can be overwhelming even to the clinicians so
Diabetes is like diabetes, pre-diabetes, and you're normal.
The challenge is like if you are having, every time, blood sugar is being checked and the numbers are creeping up, if it's the A1C is a number, there is an inflection point that they tell you, now you have your pre-diabetic, which is if A1C is 5.7, then if it goes to 6.2, you're diabetic.
But between 5.4 and 6.2, there is a range.
that a lot of things you could do to keep the numbers low and you have to be told by your doctor that things are moving in the wrong direction.
Now let's work on diet.
Let's talk about food.
How do you eat?
How do you do this?
How do you do that?
Or if the doctor doesn't have time for that, which is 99% of the case is true, the doctor should refer you to a dietitian to see how your eating habits are affecting your probability to get diabetes soon.
So, it is safe to say that looking at our health conditions as chronic health conditions only is not enough to solve our health crisis.
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So, Dr. Omar, it's one thing to have it diabetes and it's hereditary.
It's another one all together when children at very young ages become obese and you talked about it.
You see it everywhere.
I don't care where it is, you see it, but that's in America.
It's not
like that
all over the world, right?
It's all over the world, unfortunately.
I remember, yeah, it's everywhere now this is happening because the American lifestyle of living and eating is...
is infecting every...
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All right, let's go to Mary from Tulsa.
Good morning to you, Mary.
How you doing?
I'd like to ask Dr. Omar's opinion.
I eat a healthy diet, but I still have quite a taste for sweets, and so I use the healthy sweeteners in my baking and my food choices, like stevia, erythritol, dilatol.
So is this OK, or should I be working on getting rid of this addiction to sweets, which is what I think of it as?
Thanks very
much.
Thanks, Mary.
Stevia is okay to take.
It's much healthier than sugar.
So if you like stevia and you accept the taste of stevia, it's used as a sweetener in many of the powders in the professional grade supplements.
And I'm fine with stevia erythritol.
They are much better than the other sucralose and other kind of height.
I fact was going syrup kind of sweetened foods.
So severe is okay for most of the scientists and doctors should be fine.
You know, Dr. Amar from the time we're children, we just parents don't understand.
And so we start getting things.
I don't care what it is.
It's always something that's sweet.
And the business community knows what it's doing, right?
It's not by accident.
Yeah.
It is not by accident and just want to decrease the sweets.
And if we're going to eat it, we eat it as the last thing in the meal, not the first part of the meal.
Like if you start your meal by getting the proteins and the vegetables and the salads.
we have made a caution in the gut.
So when we eat the sweets, the absorption of sugar is going to be much less than starting the meal by eating something sweet when we're very hungry.
We're going to eat less portions and it's going to cause less effect on the spikes of the blood sugar because what affects the blood sugar is the spikes that shooting up to the sky of numbers.
of blood sugar after we eat the sweets.
So if we cannot stop the sweets, we can just kind of regulate when we eat them.
We can make sure that when we go to the department stores, we don't bring our children with us because they're always going to be fighting on five, 10 different things and eventually the parent is going to give up one or two things.
So it's an ongoing battle for the health of our generations.
You know, Dr. Omar, it really is just a hard thing to continue to wrestle with.
But it's something that you have to.
People have overcome.
I used to smoke cigarettes.
I can't even believe that I used to smoke cigarettes.
but I was able to overcome smoking cigarettes.
There's some things that I used to do in my life that I stopped doing because I knew long term that these things were not good for me.
But man, that continued battle with the food aspect of it.
Sometimes I think it's even more difficult than giving up the cigarettes.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I mean, giving up the smoking is a great step for health and we wish any smoker to quit.
But there are several battles we have to go through and God gave us the ability to do that.
The human body and the human brain and the alignment of our well and our abilities of what we want to do.
If we decide to do something, we will do it.
So a lot of people have become better thinking of the present and the future, not just thinking about failures of the past.
So I completely agree with you and I really salute you for being able to get rid of that cigarette.
This must have had a great impact in your life and in your health and in your ceiling of your ability to do things, right?
Well, you know, I mean, I said that I had given up smoking 20 years ago by my wife.
I said, no, it's been much longer than that, probably closer to 30 years ago.
But, you know, long, and, you know, it did give me the willpower and the courage to know that you didn't have to be stuck in that reality, you know?
And so, and the willpower to know that whatever it is, you can overcome it.
Because what you're talking about, Dr. Omar,
is willpower, information, and willpower.
But number one, information.
Everything that you're talking about points to information if you're going to change your life, right?
Right, exactly, exactly.
Getting the right information and we start with that.
That's where we start.
All right, Dr. Omai, it's always good talking to you.
We'll see you in a week and hopefully it'll be a little warmer.
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