The New Era of Weight Loss: Pills, Peptides, and the Science Behind Them

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It's always a great morning, a great opportunity that I get to share some time with the one and only Dr. Omar, the founder, proprietor of one of the greatest pharmacies.

I know the greatest pharmacy that I've ever been around in my lifetime, probably one of the top pharmacies anywhere in the world.

Dr. Omar, the proprietor of

Well, Topia Pharmacy and Neck One Thingsville.

Good morning to you, Doc.

How you doing?

Good morning, Earl.

I'm doing great.

I'm doing great.

How are you?

I'm doing fine.

It's always great to see you.

Let's talk a little bit about how people can contact

you.

People can always give us a call at 262-429-9429 or go to willtopiarx.com.

You know, I know things are great.

out at the pharmacy on yesterday and always interacting with your great staff, man.

You've got, without question, you've got one of the best staffs that I've seen.

I mean, you must really, when you choose them, their personalities and who they are really matters, right?

It matters.

Last month, we lost one of our front store employees to replace here.

We made an ad and we had about 70 applicants, 70.

And it was not an easy choice.

And we finally found someone that fits the...

the rule and she's great.

So hiring is the toughest thing because we want to give the patient the same experience they get from the owner.

And to get that, it's a level of commitment with the team.

So we have to make sure that patients are treated well, fairly, and with respect, with love.

That is key in any business that deals with patients.

But with pharmacy, it's a very intimate relationship.

So I think every pharmacy should focus on this kind of direct relationship with patients, especially now with the use of AI and less interaction with directly with consumer.

So how to find the balance is an important key in communication.

You know, they're an extension of the owner and that's

That's really what it is.

And so when you can find extensions of yourself, you don't have to be there every day, right?

I mean, if you're not there, nothing changes because you've got all these other people who believe in the same thing you believe in, customer service, taking the time out to have conversations with people who come in.

certainly a customer and a friend of you and Weltopia.

And so when I come in, I feel like it's an extended part of my family.

I mean, I really do.

I've gotten that kind of comfort with being around your great company.

And so every time I walk in, for people who don't know, you've got one of the most inviting pharmacies.

that I've ever seen.

You walk into this beautiful edifice that's

got nothing but light.

It means a lot to me.

I mean, when we open the pharmacy, we focused on the five senses.

What you see, you see beautiful place, how you feel, you feel welcomed, what you smell.

So we have diffusers working all the time.

We focus on the lighting.

We want the lighting to be welcoming as well.

It's important.

when you're receiving healthcare to feel welcomed and we didn't want the hospital feel that you have to be there.

We want to welcome people to walk in.

So it's important for us to kind of address any issues that happen, but customer relations is key to delivering the message because think of it this way.

We want you to take a medication every month

and to be religiously taking it so we can reach the results promised you by the drug company, promised you by the health system.

So delivering this message needs tenacity, needs us to kind of welcome you to that.

It doesn't stop just at, do you have any question about your medication?

It must go beyond that.

We have to train you on taking this new pill, following this new protocol, taking this new supplement, because it's kind of an intimate relationship and an ongoing process of taking the same medication over and over again when it gets to be boring and you forget what you're taking for.

The results are declining and that's why placebo effect is very strong with some people.

They take a medication and they don't know what they are taking it for and the results are less than other people that know the medication is taken for lowering blood pressure.

to have better cholesterol.

They are following up with you more when patients know and understand how to take the medicine and it all starts with the customer service they receive when they get their medication.

You know Dr. Omar and this will be the last thing and then we'll move on to the subject matter.

But even down to the presentation of when you walk into well-topia pharmacy and you're going to purchase the supplements.

you don't have them all jammed in.

Just let you know what I'm noticing when I walk into your facility.

They're not all jammed in, piled on top of each other, and you've got them just out there, and they're in order, and so it's easy for me to find what it is I'm looking for, even if I can't find it.

Certainly your employees come, and right away they're so helpful, but the fact of

down to the presentation of what you have is the way that you've got it all.

All of those things matter.

I would have never thought those things mattered, but I notice it when I come into your facility.

I

love

that

you say and you talk about presentation because this is key.

you have to know easily where is your stuff.

And of course, training the team about the natural medicine places where we have about the regular medications where they are is important.

When we're hiring someone early, we focus on their personality.

And then we train them on how to be good technicians, how to be understanding the supplements.

But the personality

of care and listening and understanding.

That is the key.

So I am glad that you enjoy it when you come, even when I am not at the pharmacy.

That's a great accomplishment for my team.

And I'm going to give them bonuses today just because you

said that.

All right.

All right.

Let's get into Dr. Omar, a subject matter that if ever we've talked about a lot of things, but this one.

is right now is moving just so swiftly through the lexicon of people.

And that's this weight loss.

What is the letters?

We have new weight loss pills that you take orally, not injectables.

this time.

In 2026, we have this kind of craze about pills to help you with weight loss, not injectables.

Tell us the

difference between the pill and the injectable.

I'm sure it's probably the same.

It's got to be the same configuration that produces it.

It's out of the results the same.

What is the difference, Dr. Owens?

It's like in the last five months, we are living through the most significant shift in the obesity medicine in decades.

For the first time ever, we have FDA approved pills specifically for weight loss that work the same way as the most powerful injections.

So today, I want to take our listeners through some of the options from the brand new prescription pills,

to a fascinating New Zealand botanical that triggers the body's own fullness hormones, the GLP-1 activators, to a peptide supplement also that protects your muscle while you lose weight.

Starting with the ozempic and wegovi, so we have the wegovi injection for weight loss.

Same active ingredient now is in a pill, and it's protected from the gut crushing effect on the peptides.

So these peptides are taken orally to help with weight loss.

It's called the wegovi pill, and it is different from that Rayi Baal's pill.

So initially, a few years ago, there was something called ribalsis.

And that was diabetes medication that is taken orally on empty stomach 30 minutes before food.

Some people were losing weight and the ribalsis had some problems in their absorption.

So the new thing is that they took the ribalsis and they created from it another pill called the Wegovie pill at a higher dose than the ribalsis and you can take it orally.

And the nice thing is that we see weight loss that is very comparable to the injectables that are taken also for weight loss.

And the nice thing it's titration dose.

So the WeGoovy pill starts at like 1.5 milligram, goes up to 4 milligram, 9 milligram.

And the highest dose is 25 milligram because it still can cause nausea and some vomiting.

So it titrates up from the lowest dose.

And we see very good results with this pill.

And the best thing early is the price.

The price that's presented for it is

easy for the patients to kind of start, and it's a different price tier from the injectables.

Well, so here's what I don't understand, Dr. Olma.

It sounds too good to be true.

So if, because it clearly is cheaper to produce and use than the injection injectables, because the injectable apparatus costs money.

So that certainly

Explain to me how the competition, if this new pill now that comes out, it's in direct competition to injectables because it's cheaper.

What happens to the injectable business that has been so financially successful and now there's a pill that challenges that?

Great

question.

So the companies that produce the Wegoovy and the Ozympic, they know that if they don't come out with their own different and new molecule, someone else is going to take this from them.

So the market is huge and the injectables are not going anywhere.

But there is a group of people that cannot afford it to pay $500 or $1,000 to get the injectable.

So they can afford the $149 to start taking the pill and they can afford

at $299, the highest dues of the Uyghur V-Pill.

So because the market is big and there is so many segments in it, they are trying to actually gain more of these segments because the same way that we have the Uyghur V-Pill, we have the company that produces the other injectable, which is the Terzapetide, they are coming out with another oral.

medication for weight loss, and it's not epiptyed this time.

It's called fondio, like foundation fondio, and that's not epiptyed.

It's different from the Uighur pill.

And it's also causing a lot of buzz about this new medication that has a very significant way of administration.

And that is kind of very peculiar that the oral

medication for Uigovi, you have to take it to an empty stomach 30 minutes before you eat for their best absorption.

Otherwise it's not going to work.

So if you take it through the day, it's not going to work.

With the fondio, it's a small molecule.

You can take it any time in the day, but you give away that you're not losing as much weight as when you take the Uigovi pill.

So Dr. Omar, you are a compound of pharmacist with great knowledge.

Let's break this down in the language that lay people like myself can understand.

What's a peptide?

Great question.

Peptide is a medication that is made from very small chain of amino acids, which is the building block for proteins.

Peptides, some of them are natural, some of them are synthetic, but they join on the same

structure of being made from amino acids.

Think of the peptide as difference between it and the medication is that a lock and the key, there is regular medications are like a key that opens the lock of the enzyme or the place, which is like it starts working in the body.

But this key doesn't open just one lock.

It opens also other locks and can cause side effects.

peptides are smarter than medications.

So for the most part is that it's being marketed as it doesn't cause as much side effects as medications.

So what is the purpose of the protein to the body?

It does everything in the body.

We're made of proteins.

It's a very important constituent of all the cells in the body.

And that's why we say protein is very important in your diet because we are made of proteins.

We need that protein.

So enzymes are made of proteins.

The tissues contain the proteins.

So kind of you're getting to the body constituents that it's made of to help it heal and get better.

So Dr. Amat, this is why I just love having these conversations with you because

It is life changing, the conversations that we have together.

Why it's so important that we continue to do this, and I'm so honored to have you on board.

What's the difference?

You said it's different than medication.

This protein or this peptide is different than medication.

What is it made of?

So think of your body, it uses proteins to build the muscle, create hormones, repair the tissues, make enzymes and run the immune system.

Think of the collagen, the insulin naturally made by the pancreas, the hemoglobin, the antibodies, the whey protein.

All of these are proteins and they are usually nutrients, structural material, signaling molecules and naturally occurring in the food and in the body.

A medication is anything used to diagnose, treat, prevent, or manage disease.

So it can be a chemical drug, a plant extract, a mineral.

All right.

It can be anything.

It can be a protein.

You can call a medication as a peptide when you try to purpose this peptide, this protein, in order to be used as a medication.

It can be anything else that's used to help to treat.

So when you

Take those proteins and you purpose them as a drug.

Now it's called a drug.

So the example of the oldest peptide that we have is the insulin.

It's a protein medication.

Monoclonal antibodies that are used to help with different cancers and the immune system, these are protein medications.

GLP1 drugs, they are peptide medications.

Today, we hear about peptides as a new thing that people are trying to use and utilize to help to treat and heal, but they're very old.

They've been used in medicine for a long, long time.

Just the new thing that is happening is that there is a new set of peptides that have not been well-studied for human use, and there is a fight with the FDA to approve them for human use because there is not enough studies on them.

But at the same time, there are peptides that are utilized in medicine today.

And the shift in medicine is happening that some of the medication like GLP ones, these are peptides.

millions of people are using them.

And that's why we have a safety profile built for these medications.

Of course, we have to check if a patient has some of the things that can be contraindication to taking those GLP ones, like thyroid cancer, got issues.

But at the same time, safety profile is very high, and we have many people that tried many things to lose weight.

They are not losing weight, and now they need a solution.

So I want to use this solution

even temporarily for at least six months to feel I can lose weight.

I can change the composition of my body fat.

I can lose that belly.

And then I can do something else.

I can follow on a diet, you know?

So Dr. Omar, you just,

I want to, I remember many months back when the conversation was about the G01P.

Did I say it right?

Is it?

GLP one.

GLP one, yes.

The

GLP one.

In other words, these weight loss drugs that they've got out.

And I was asking you a question many months back about, this is new.

And you said, no, it's not.

You said this has been, they've had these for a long, long time.

So they've done extensive research and studies on these.

GP, whatever, GLP one, GLP one drugs.

They're not new.

Yeah, they're very old.

Actually peptides help with like they're very old used in medicine.

Our bodies run on peptides, insulin.

This is a peptide to control blood sugar, glucagon.

It's a peptide in our body, oxytocin.

It's in our body for bonding and love.

GLP-1 for satiety and the feeling of hunger is gone.

GIP, this is epipthide endorphin.

So the epipthide revolution began in 1921 with insulin discovery.

So it's old.

We've been utilizing it in medicine for so long, but just because

Every few years we have something that takes the buzz, the marketing, that people start to be interested about because of the effect on the body.

Remember, GLP ones started as medications for diabetes.

Weight loss was a side effect.

And then suddenly weight loss began, oh, we can lose 10, 15% of body fat.

Oh, there is change in body composition.

I finally can get this belly fat to mobilize in the body.

Let me check this out and then the company started to check this out and it became a billion dollar drug.

So now we have people that lost weight that did not think that they can ever lose weight.

They tried everything, but one, two years later, they cannot afford the medication.

They want a solution to continue with weight loss.

And that's when we tell them, well, actually these medications were meant to help you get in a program for

Healthy living and now it's your turn to feel you believe that this is going to happen.

So doctor, I'm just so energized about the subject Because it leads me to more and more questions so Here we are this this drug that we're talking about You talked about man 1920s so drugs that have been produced and created

many, many decades ago, what happens?

Scientists continue to re-study that medication and the different things that it can do.

I mean, the medications don't just deal with one issue.

Maybe it was created to deal with one issue, but they continue to, the scientists continue to look at different ways and impacts that they study.

of what that medication that was created way back in 1921.

I mean, we're not developing everything brand new.

They're multi-purposes of medications.

It's safe to say that.

Yeah, actually, it's very true.

Most new breakthrough drugs are actually descendants of old discoveries.

Insulin in 1921 opened the door to a massive realization.

The body controls itself using signaling molecules.

And then scientists spent decades discovering new hormones and peptides in the body, mapping the receptors.

And learning how signals affect hunger, metabolism, inflammation, aging, mood, immunity.

And the GLP1 weight loss drugs today are basically highly engineered cousins of natural gut hormones discovered

decades ago.

So what changes is not just the molecule, it's the engineering.

The longer half-life, instead of taking medication every day like Leraglutide, we can take it every week.

So longer half-life, it stays in the body longer and better targeting.

We are affecting certain molecules in the body, certain receptors in the body.

fewer injections, and then now we have oral delivery.

We can take it orally.

Patients who are afraid from needles, now they can take it.

And they were taking the medication early in the morning, 30 minutes before food for some patients that affect the compliance.

Now we have the fondio.

That's another medication that is used orally anytime in the day.

So medicine evolves like this, discover natural body signal, understand the receptor, how it works, copy it, improve it, make it stronger, longer, smarter, and semaglutide wasn't invented from nowhere.

It's part of a hundred year scientific chain that started with insulin.

Dr. Ma,

GOP1, so the injection

Is it more powerful than the pill?

Is it the same thing?

Are you getting the exact same thing only in a pill form?

Because you said it's cheaper.

So the way it works in my mind is that if something is cheaper, it's not as good.

And so are we talking about apples and oranges or is it the same thing?

Talking about apples and peaches.

Shield run injections are still more powerful, all right, but we're getting the oral pill to be

closer in the comparison because the oral peptides get to be destroyed by the stomach acid and the digestive enzyme and the absorption.

But what they are doing is that they are protecting the semaglutide with an ingredient, a salt called SNAC.

They are protecting it so it can get better absorption, but still

Girl, it's 1% absorption of the semaglutide when you take it orally.

So you have to take it at a higher dose to get the results.

And then there is a problem of tolerance, so it can cause upset stomach.

So the first month, the patient take 1.5 milligram.

Second month, if they can tolerate it, they go to 4 milligram.

And then they can go to the 9 milligram where we see the weight loss happening in a steady way, all right?

So some patients actually lose more than 15% of body weight using the injectable GLP ones can go to 20%.

With oral zip bound, we can get up to 15%.

But it's still injectables are stronger.

So

injectables go directly to the bloodstream.

They bypass the stomach.

It's subcutaneous, subcutaneous.

So it goes faster.

It's not in the bloodstream, but it still goes bypasses the gut, and that affects, make the peptide work stronger.

So Dr. Omar, this is just so fascinating, because we're watching just, it's all over the place, right?

You can't watch any show without all of these,

You know different companies now who are in the business and so early on There was several and now there's so many companies even with the injections that you know They claim to even do it better So are these companies using the same?

Is it basically the same medication?

or does one company make it better than the other companies?

Even if we're talking about the injection, all of these other now companies that aren't, you know, the WeGoVie and all of those with the big name, they're smaller names, are they giving you the exact same thing?

The standards

are the same?

glad that you mentioned that through 2023, 2024, 2025 there was shortage of the injectable medications and that's when compounding pharmacy is sterile compounding.

started to make them.

So some of those companies are very good.

Some of them are not that great.

So people where and still are using different formulation of the terzapatide and semi-glutide, the question about the quality has always been and will always be there.

So that's why these

Compounding pharmacies should follow strict rules in compounding to make it matching the brand name drugs.

But if they follow the formula and they are good repetition pharmacies, they should be similar in the effect.

It's all about the shortage list.

When the medication goes out from the shortage list, then it cannot be compounded or it has to be made with other ingredients.

So we see now that there's a pitide made with vitamin B or other ingredients like that would help with absorption.

Listen, the side effect and the doctor would write on the prescription, the patient is having side effects to the

the brand name medication, so going around the federal rules that govern that.

But for the most part, if it's a good pharmacy, it would work the same.

But we're coming now to an era of lowering the cost of the brand name drugs injectables.

So these companies are going to be able to protect their patents, offer them medication at a lower price, and also offer different options for patients to help them lose weight.

And as a compounder, as a pharmacist,

as someone who works for the patient and for the patient budget.

I want to tell the patient that there are several options and they are all customized according to each one's own personal health and budget as well.

Some patients cannot take those medications because of their gut health.

They have severe constipation, they have diarrhea, they have gut issues that need to be fixed first, inflammation that need to be addressed.

So we have to place these medications where they belong because many patients cannot take them.

Some patients have

history of thyroid cancer, they cannot take this medication.

So it's nice that there are millions of people that took the GLP once it helped with them, but it's also more important to ask that question, is this suitable for me or not?

And if it's not, then what is suitable, what we need to fix first so we can try these medications?

That's a real conversation.

You know, Dr. Omar, you know, I've just got a million questions to ask on this subject because

Weight Watchers, that a billion dollar corporation that was for decades, you know, we're the ones we have the answer to your weight loss problems.

Long before we talked about any of these injectables.

Now weight loss has taken on the injectables.

And there now,

That's one of the things that Weight Watchers is offering.

So it certainly tells you something about the impact of what is happening with this, with this miracle.

Is it safe to say miracle drug?

It's not a miracle drug, but if it's placed correctly, utilized smartly for a plan, a program for at least six months,

it can give confidence to patients, people who have been trying to lose weight that they can finally lose weight or finally mobilize fats in areas they thought it would be impossible for them to move this body fat.

Think of it as a mother who has three kids and have been trying to lose weight for a long time and she cannot.

Think of it as someone on Perimenopause who started to do hormone replacement therapy and

She started finally to get her hormones under control and now is trying to lose weight.

It gives hope.

It's safe to say that it can make people believe in their ability that we can finally lose weight.

And I just wanted to stop there.

I believe in myself now.

Now let me work on my...

working out, increase the proteins, work on my stress levels, because I want to live healthy, because it's still like if I have to pay $150 or $200 for my weight loss drug every single month for the rest of my life, it's not realistic.

We want people to spend money where the budget allows them to.

So you're watching television and you're watching actors and...

and professional athletes who are past their time.

And they've lost all of this weight.

And they're saying the reason I lost all of this weight was this peptide that I'm taking.

And you see them and you say, oh wow, look at them.

They lost 40, 50 pounds.

I'm watching them.

And then attributing that to

the fact that they're taking this medication, but that's not it alone, is it?

They go through weight loss program where the medication is part of it.

They do many other things.

The nice thing about the GLP-1 medication is that it changes the biology of hunger itself.

It's like an earthquake in weight loss.

People are realizing that obesity is not simply weak, well-power, or laziness.

For many patients, it's deeply tied to hormone signaling, feeling of satiety, insulin resistance, the brain reward system, and the inflammation.

One important aspect of the GLP-1 drug's error

is when people say the food noise is stopped.

The food noise is not there.

Calling you into the

refrigerator.

Calling you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel like, okay, when I'm stressed, I don't reach for the fridge anymore for the last month.

I realize that now.

So that food noise is kind of biological change in the body.

The GLP ones have changed the conversation and what I like about being a pharmacist is that we're able to offer the tools.

What I don't like is that these tools become the only solution.

I want this tool to be a tool.

I use it and then I utilize it when I need it.

But then I can follow through without.

So we have a plans for people to stay on the GLP ones for six months.

If they want to stop, we offer them supplements and we offer them.

kind of healthy living plans to just continue with living healthy.

So Dr. Omar, so now because we see this constantly on television is bombardment with these types of medications now.

Non-stop, you're just sitting there, I don't care what it is, that time to showing all of this.

And now I see it, and now, I was at the gym yesterday.

And so now there's probably some guy in the stall next to you, the locker next to you, and he's saying, hey, I got some of that.

You know, I can sell it to you cheaper.

Let's talk about people who are buying this inherent dangers of people who are buying it, even on the internet.

These concoctions.

that claim to be the exact same thing, yet they're not.

Yes, quality control becomes everything.

If you get your stuff from a place that's not regulated, that's a big problem.

So when we at Tultopia Pharmacy, when I buy something from a drug company, even from another pharmacy, we have to do background check to make sure that they are following the strict rules for compliance because quality is everything.

When we have a supplement company that we work with and we're selling it in our store, these companies are proving to us that they are third party tested, which means they send their stuff to another lab to tell them the active ingredient is there.

It's a clean product.

It's not adulterated.

If you don't know where you're getting your stuff from or you don't have this kind of, okay, let me get it from the general, let me get it from online from a place that I don't know.

It's kind of inherent danger because there is no Accountability there every time someone calls at the pharmacy and say we are the first time to call you We tell them where we are check us check us out come visit us because we're breaking motor and You can make sure you know where you get your stuff from So we have to make sure that patients are safe.

That's why pharmacists

are protecting the community, protecting the consumer and making sure that they get a safe product.

So it's practically the liability of the place that you get your stuff from is very important.

So that's why when you reach out for trying something new, please pass it by your healthcare professional, someone you trust, someone who listens to you, whether it's your pharmacist, your doctor, your PA,

The healthcare professional who's going to give you an honest answer, who knows their stuff, it's very important.

But don't just try things online without this knowledge, because to try anything, to see results, you have to try it for at least three months, but your body is sacred.

What comes in, what comes in should be clean, should be verified, because

you want your experience with this active ingredient to be good.

If you have bad experience with, let's say, a supplement like berberine, you're getting bad berberine that is not helping you to control your blood sugar.

If you get a quality product in the future with berberine, you're going to say, oh, I tried this before.

It didn't work.

Well, I don't know what you tried before.

It was not verified.

It was not coming from a trusted source.

So there is inherent

long-term effects to trying things that you do not know for the heck of it.

Please always check and double the check because it's your body and your body is valuable.

So find someone who's going to give you unbiased information

for the best of your health.

So if you're just joining us, my guest is the one and only Dr. Omar, the founder, owner.

uh, uh, well, Topia pharmacy in Mecklin, Thamesville.

Just, uh, he's a compounder and, and all around just knowledgeable guy who is not just a pharmacist and not just a knowledgeable guy, but a guy who takes his, takes the time out to treat you and anybody who walks into his facility, anybody he talks to, um,

as somebody who is valuable, that your life is valuable and important, and he takes the time out to listen.

And I'm just in love with Dr. Oma, and I'm just so happy to be able to have these dialogues and conversations with him.

And so Dr. Oma, how can people get in touch with you?

People can always call at 262-429-9429.

or text the same number or go to www.wiltopiarx.com.

Now, so let's talk about these, these, the things that we're talking about, have been talking about for the last 30, 40 minutes.

So when, when people are deciding whether or not they should take these weight loss drugs, does it matter if it's an overweight child or an elderly person?

or a person in middle age, are there any inherent dangers, whether it's something, maybe a young person shouldn't be taking it, whether an older person shouldn't be taking it, or whether this is better served for somebody in middle age?

It's a great question.

There is a minimum age and requirement.

Pediatrics are not yet...

approved for using these medications.

But actually, there is a big trial now for teens ages from 12 to 17.

And they found that there is like 16% average BMI body mass index reduction, 16% weight loss reduction.

So it's going to come for children as well, right?

Not there yet.

But we are seeing

three diabetes, diabetes in younger children over weight generations.

You walk into a primary school now and you see a lot of children have weight problems.

So it's being addressed now with these companies.

And there is kind of T and GLP-1 use is rising rapidly to be used like since 2022.

It's not approved yet, but I think the medication

approval rate will happen in the coming a few months and few years.

For above 18 years old, that's the approval age for using these medications now.

And for patients who cannot, people who cannot take the medications, there is also natural substitutes that we use.

One of them is called calocurb.

CaloCurb is a New Zealand natural GLP-1 activator that doesn't have the same side effect as the medication.

CaloCurb is cheaper.

CaloCurb helps with weight loss about 6% after the first four months.

CaloCurb, the New Zealand government, spent $30 million in studies

to find the herbal product that will help with weight loss naturally affecting the satiety and hunger in the body.

It's very effective and you can get it only from a pharmacy like Wiltopia and we have been using it also with patients who do not want to take the Simaglutide and Terzapetide.

the injectables anymore.

It's taken in a certain way and we're very happy to present it to our clients.

And that is kind of the epitome of weight loss when it comes to natural supplements.

Because in the older age, we only had the green tea, we had guarana, we had some of the products that can help someone active to lose weight.

But now we have more of the supplements in order to help support that.

So under the spot, there is the GLP once, and then there is so many things that affect it.

And those are all of the programs for weight loss.

But again, anyone who aggressively loses weight and continue to have this weight lost, it's not because of a medication.

It's because it's a program.

They follow through and they continue to do it because we have to realize people are losing protein.

So they have to substitute protein.

People are losing collagen.

So they have to substitute collagen.

So healthy eating habits is very important.

Breakfast with proteins is very important.

Getting at least 1.2 to 1.6 gram per kilogram of protein per day is very important.

Missing breakfast make you miss the goal of protein intake in the day.

It's a program there.

It's a

plan.

So GOP one, the impact that it's had on diabetes is without question.

It certainly has been very, is it safe to say very successful in controlling type two diabetes?

For sure, it changes the diabetes treatment dramatically, not just because it lowers blood sugar, but because they attack multiple parts of the metabolic disease at once.

So they force the glucose numbers down.

It kind of changes the model of how insulin resistance work because they help to increase insulin release when the glucose rises and reduce the glucagon which raises blood sugar.

It kind of affect the appetite, improve satiety.

So that all affect insulin resistance.

It's a huge breakthrough because type 2 diabetes is deeply connected to obesity, fatty liver, insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, overeating, visceral fat.

So we see people lose weight, decrease insulin resistance.

Some patients that take these medications report that they had knee pain that went away.

just because inflammation decreased in the body.

Some patients that take these medications are reporting that they are mentally sharper because there are studies that show that these medications are helping with brain health.

So it is very important when it comes to diabetes, but also in the cardiovascular

range of how it helps the heart, fewer heart attacks, fewer strokes, lowering the cardiovascular mortality.

So the medications have changed everything when it comes to chronic health conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular risk.

Metabolism is everything.

What we eat is the medicine of every day.

And it's changing the way the food get to be absorbed and move through the gut.

is very important.

So the GL3 ones are affecting the biology of the body and that kind of where the breakthrough is.

So you said it's not a miracle drug and but yet it extends the life, the quality of life if what I'm hearing you say.

I mean it's not a magic elixir but it does provide certain things.

that can help you in the quality of your life.

Is that correct?

It's correct.

And that's why we tell patients, like, we want you to understand the medication that you take.

If it's a powerful drug that you're taking, we want to respect it, take the precautions to make sure we're taking it correctly in the right time to see the best results.

To give you an example, some patients took the Uguvi pill and they're not losing weight.

The reason is because they take it with food.

that destroys the way it works.

The medication need to be taken on empty stomach 30 minutes before you eat in the morning.

All right, some patients are taking the Ozympic and the Monjaro, but they take higher dose than what their body can accept.

So they have vomiting and they have nausea and they cannot take it anymore.

So those patients need to take a lower dose.

So it's a powerful drug.

It helps patients to come off insulin, reduce blood pressure medications, improves fatty liver, improves sleep apnea.

There is kind of FDA approved use now for sleep apnea, regain mobility.

Some patients are not moving because of their weight and now they gain back their mobility.

So yes, for some patients it's life changing and that's why we want them to understand the power of this medication and

when and how it needs to be used.

You

know, Dr. Amar, Jess, as I've always said to you, every time you give me an answer, other questions pop up in my head.

And you're able to answer them in a manner that the average person can understand.

Science at the root of everything we're talking about here is science.

What are your thoughts when we have

someone who's in charge of our health department for the nation.

And they don't think that science-based information to... What is... I'm trying to think of Kennedy's title.

He's the...

Health What is this?

What is this title?

He's in charge of health for the nation

Yeah, he oversees the FDA overseas every every every every single Department of Health

as powerful a person as can be and yet I'm hearing you everything you talk about is scientific It's not something that somebody's just pulling

out of the sky, it's all been studied by top scientists before it's even released to the American people.

And yet your thoughts about somebody who can sit and basically dismiss science when we're talking about health, Dr. Oman.

What you say is kind of neat.

Because public health leadership cannot operate from emotions or eternal fires or just selective evidence.

The goal should never be trust everything blindly.

And it also should never be trust nothing.

The real goal is rigorous evidence.

Open the debate, transparency, and patient-centered medicine.

So science is in the center of this.

And we're proud that the American scientists

and universities and the researchers are producing enough data, enough science for us and enough tools to believe that science is what means everything, but leaders speak, millions listen.

It can't come only from emotions and personal experience.

It has to come based on the recommendations from scientists and advisory boards that work with you.

So we really hope

that this gets to be the future of America.

Last thing, for those who are just joining us or, you know, have a lot of questions about our conversation, Dr. Omar, how can people reach you again?

Call us or text us at 262-429-9429 or go to wiltopiarx.com.

So if you're

wrestling

with this decision,

somebody who's listening about whether or not, you know, you've struggled with weight like many of so many of us have because, you know, it's not just you, it's not just that just that we're weak, Dr. Omar, everything that's out here or most of the things that are produced, our food and the things that we drink, they increase the weight.

of a person.

You may not know it, just you love something, they've made it where it tastes so good that you just want more and more of it, it doesn't matter.

They haven't been concerned about the impact that it has on you, but the fact that to make money, they're gonna make sure that everything tastes, you can't just take what.

Well, I forgot what that commercial was.

You can't just eat one bite.

OK.

You can't just eat one bite.

Exactly.

Exactly.

You can't eat one bite.

And then you see the commercial coming after that.

Now it's time for you to lose weight.

Yeah.

It's kind of crazy.

You do the medicine after they give you the problem.

And I said that, Dr. Omar, because it's not always that we're weak.

Right.

And sometimes people, because of their excess weight, we live in a society that looks upon a person who has gained weight as being weak.

And we live in a society where everybody that is staying is beautiful.

Everybody who's overweight is just a weak person.

But that's not the case, Dr. Omar.

And I think that destroys the...

the character of people.

And so all of this is related to health and science.

It's not just the fact that you were just some bump on the log and you're weak, is it?

I mean, that's not it.

Mentally, there's a better way of handling this.

Completely agree.

Completely agree.

And that's why we have to have an open conversation about our health.

kind of perioditized more than the cup of coffee that you drink every day that has to be perfect, your health shall be perfect.

I think that we can leave it there.

Dr. Oma, just always a great, great conversation with you.

And I want to again, before we get out of here, how can people reach you?

All of me at 262-429-9429 or go to willtopiarx.com and communicate with us.

You have been in the pharmacy with none other than Dr. Omar, the pharmacist of Will Topia Pharmacy in Mequon, Thamesville, just a breath of fresh air, a bright light, and more than anything else, a good friend.

Dr. Omar, we'll see you next time.

Kiss the babies.

Thank you.

That's a wrap for what's going on with Earl Ingram.

See you later.

See you there.

Bye.