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.