Oh, Oh It’s Magic: Therapeutic Medical Cannabis
So apparently in Obesity Medicine, Ozempic is all the craze. The catchy jingle says, “Oh, Oh, it’s magic, you know”. Actually, for me the magical medicinal IS Therapeutic Medical Cannabis. I personally, don’t use Ozempic for weight loss and type 2 diabetes management. Instead, I use Medical Cannabis fast acting gummies, with a daily microdosing protocol while awake, with a Preventive Medicine weight loss regimen I developed secondary to knowledge gleaned from Surgical Residency Bariatric Surgery rotations in the Northwell Health medical educational ecosystem, as well as, a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) adolescent Bariatric Surgery Fellowship training, which I completed at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, many moons ago.
This Obesity Medicine protocol I deployed while being the Medical Director of a Rehabilitation Center on Utica Avenue in the East Flatbush underserved area community. My patients reported that they lost 3-5 pounds (lbs) per week on this weight loss, wound healing-repair regimen. The recommended weight loss methodology in Obesity Medicine is half (1/2) a pound (lb) a week. My patients lost 6-10 times the weekly recommended weight loss in Obesity Medicine.
The main issue in Obesity Medicine is the co-occurring behavioral health diseases/disorders, such as, anxiety, depression, body dysmorphic disorder, anorexia-bulimia disorder, and gut motility syndrome diseases/disorders, that are often overlooked when evaluating for Ozempic therapy. Therapeutic Medical Cannabis is the only plant medicinal I know with 600 innate/intrinsic compounds, that I can use to treat all these co-occurring disorders, by practicing precision medicine, and treating each disease/disorder with the specific strain and terpene that is required. Additionally, the added benefit of microdosing during the day, makes Therapeutic Medical Cannabis, a safer medicinal relative to side effect profile, as well as, it’s way more efficacious (works exponentially better).
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) and it’s effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis should be more aggressively studied after rescheduling of Therapeutic Medical Cannabis from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 3 drug. The future medicinal treatment modalities for behavioral health diseases/disorders, and obesity medicine is bright indeed, we have a safe medicinal therapeutic, Medical Cannabis, which is exceptionally magical.