GLP-1 and Alcohol consumption
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Kelly
Jan 20, 2024, 6:36:37 AMJan 20
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It's going to be interesting to see if these medications that are currently being used to fight obesity and diabetes become a help for people trying to drink less. As someone who is taking one due to PCOS and prediabetes, I will say they have completely turned me off to alcohol. My problem was never alcohol but eating very unhealthy for several weeks after having a night out with drinks. I haven't wanted to even touch alcohol since I started this medication, it's really amazing and the potential is astounding, especially as research continues in this area of peptides & GLP-1 agonists. Article below:
Kelly
Jeff Foote PhD
Jan 20, 2024, 7:14:00 AMJan 20
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thanks for sharing Kelly - very interesting for sure
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Jan 20, 2024, 3:40:35 PMJan 20
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Thanks for sharing your experience Kelly! I have a client on this medication for weight loss/stabilization after surgery and they also had a difficult relationship with alcohol. They'd reported a similar effect as you describe. Could def be a game changer and hopefully with few negative side effects long term. Congrats on your hard won success too!
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Jan 20, 2024, 3:59:01 PMJan 20
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This is really interesting, thank you for sharing Kelly! Does anyone know anything about the mechanism that might be causing this effect?
I can ask the HAMS for women group if anyone has had this experience. If I get responses I'll let y'all know.
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Maia Szalavitz
Jan 20, 2024, 6:00:21 PMJan 20
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I wrote about the mechanism here... it seems to be shifting attention away from food, rather than
making it unpleasant ...
it's weird because some journalists (with no data that I can find) are claiming it's more like naloxone or anti-dopamine
or other anti-pleasure drugs, but that really doesn't seem to be how it acts. I'm sure some people find it unpleasant
simply because drugs act in hugely varied ways.
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Kelly Matthews
Jan 20, 2024, 6:43:21 PMJan 20
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So my personal experience. There are definitely foods I don’t want and there are foods that don’t agree with me any more. especially anything with a lot of sugar. I used to love wine and now don’t really want it. I have had a vodka soda on it and it was fine but I didn’t want more like I usually do.
To me, food tastes the same. It medication does quiet my brain. I don’t think about food all the time, I get full or actually feel full, which I didn’t in the past. I stay full longer, and it suppresses my appetite alcohol included .
The additional positives that I was not expecting is that it helped with my focus. I have ADD and I don’t take medication for it but I definitely have days where I am really focused. Also, day one of the shot any depression I had was lifted, and it has been gone, since. I was really in a slump, and I’ve been highly motivated for the last six weeks. I realize some of that was likely due to my diet but again it was an instant effect. So I would say it’s definitely not anti-dopamine because as someone who suffers from a lack of dopamine I don’t feel that way at all. I even want to exercise. Which I didn’t before.
As far as unpleasantness, it can have side effects. I have slight nausea every once in a while. I’m not on a super high dose though. The other side effects that are annoying or constipation but you can stay ahead of that and being freezing all the time but I can deal with that right now as well. Anyway, thanks for sharing the link. I will check it out.
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