Posts Tagged ‘Mounjaro’
May 31st, 2024 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Everything we see seems to indicate that Ozempic and drugs with a similar mechanism of action are here to stay. It’s not “just” for obesity but also for diabetes, and outcomes for heart and renal disease seem to improve. These medications took a long time to arrive, and many patients who benefit from them are older and have been overweight for many years and even decades. You will be able to wear nicer clothes, knee and foot pain may go away, and you can see your body as it used to be when you were younger and thinner. But your skin is now showing its wrinkles, and your arms are…
April 2nd, 2024 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Older skin is different from baby skin, not just in texture but also in color. Or, let’s say, colors, like in plural? Older skin looks almost like a map, with different spots reminding you of all the ays we mistreated our skin as we grew up. That burn while we were boiling water in the kettle? The time we stayed way too long in the sun after the sea had rinsed away the sunscreen. How about broken capillaries? They produce bruising that changes color with time and may take months to disappear. You may also get those pin-size red spots. Many illnesses require the use of anticoagulants: heart arrhythmia, cancer,…
September 16th, 2023 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Just in case you haven’t heard about it, a new kind of weight-loss/diabetes medication has revolutionized how we see obesity. And that is a great thing. Obesity is a health problem because it causes a lot more than “just” mental distress for people who are obese. I could list the health problems that follow long-term obesity, but they are familiar to many and are also easily found online. If obesity was ever a sign of wealth, this association has long been gone from first-world societies. Nowadays, it’s a sign of “low class,” lack of willpower, or whatever. Obese girls are not cool. You don’t have to agree with these opinions…