1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to Wellness sun Mass. I'm doctor Nicole Saffire and 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: this is your weekly rundown. Now. I am going to 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: start by apologizing for my voice. Well, I don't have one. 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: I was battling a little bit of bronchitis and just 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: a normal crazy week and here we are without a voice. 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: So I apologize. But we're doing the rundown because you 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: deserve it. So we have some good news in the 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: news cycle right now. Researchers release data on a once 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: weekly injectable drug very similar to the glp ones, but 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: it works a little bit differently. Tin phase two trials, 11 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: people on the medication lost about twenty percent of their 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: body weight, which puts them kind of in the ballpark 13 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: of the GLP ones. The reason I like this well, 14 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: I like choice when it comes to medications, and I 15 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: don't like monopolies on the market. So the more medications 16 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 1: that come that can help people to lose weight, in 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: my opinion, the better. There's also an oral medication, a 18 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: tablet that's in clinical trials right now as well. Now, 19 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: the big thing for me is no injection, no pill. 20 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: These are not magic drugs, okay, they cannot replace the 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: basics of real food, movement, sleep, and stress management. We 22 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: cannot be substituting these medications for healthy habits. That being said, 23 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: obesity is a chronic and complex disease and it's not 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: all about willpower, so there has to be some options 25 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: for people to help get a jump start. My biggest 26 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: concern is what we have seen when people start these medications. 27 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: Once they go off the medications, not only do they 28 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: gain their weight pretty much right back, oftentimes they gain 29 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: more weight than they started with. So it works the opposite. 30 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: Now we'll have an even more overweight person unless they 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 1: have just completely decided to sign up for lifetime use 32 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: of this medication, which, to be honest, I think a 33 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: lot of people are doing that. Here's the problem. We 34 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: don't really have that long term safety data to show 35 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: that lifetime use of this medication is okay. So I 36 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: find that little bit concerning. We know that there's side effects. 37 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: We already see the side effects, so people take these 38 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: medications with known risks, but there may be more risks 39 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: that we haven't even identified. Now. The second topic for 40 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: a rundown today, it's kind of funny. I roll my 41 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: eyes at it, and when I say funny, I don't 42 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: really mean funny haha, but funny in a like a 43 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,399 Speaker 1: chaotic way that again makes me roll my eyes as 44 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: a sense that the CDC has quietly changed the language 45 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: on its vaccine safety web page this week. Now, this 46 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: isn't really surprising, seeing as RFK Junior when prior to 47 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: his presidential campaign launch and during his campaign launch before 48 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: he quit his campaign to join President Trump, he was 49 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: all about the vaccines. All he wanted to talk about 50 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: was the vaccines, and a huge part of his base 51 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: are people who do not support the use of vaccines. 52 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: So am I surprised that they decided to manipulate the 53 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: CDC vaccine web page now that he's second cherry of HHS. 54 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: Of course not. Here's the problem. The problem is that 55 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: during the confirmation process, and I'm not sure if you 56 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: watched it like I did, Senator Bill Cassidy, who's a doctor, 57 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: put a Republican senator and his vote was crucial to 58 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: get RFK Junior confirmed, and everybody on the left was 59 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: hoping he was going to vote no, and he really 60 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: had trepidation. He had his own concerns about RFK Jr. 61 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: And his stance on vaccines. Well, in a letter or 62 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: in a speech that he gave on the Senate floor, 63 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: he being Senator Bill Cassidy. He talked about a closed 64 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: door conversation that he had with I believe RFK Jr. 65 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: Where RFK Junior or his team or someone told Bill 66 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: Cassidy they would not be changing the verbiage on the 67 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: CDC's vaccine web page the low and behold. Here we 68 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: are a year in or not less than a year 69 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: into the administration takeover, and they did just that. So 70 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: for me, do I like the new wording of the 71 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: CDC web page? No? I don't. It is it sounds 72 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: like someone without a science background wrote it. Certainly is 73 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: not evidence based, and I really just think this was 74 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: a way too you know, I guess appease his supporters 75 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: who have been very outspoken saying that he isn't doing 76 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: anything for vaccine. Just changing the verbiage on the web page. 77 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: Is that going to move the needle either way? Absolutely not. 78 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: This is really just posturing, but it's doing a huge 79 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: discredit to the CDC, which, by the way, I already 80 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: had major issues with the CDC through COVID, but I 81 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: don't even reference it now at all because I just 82 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: don't know the motivation behind what's on the web pages. 83 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: So I felt that way through COVID. I'm still continuing 84 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: to feel that way. I can't wait until we get 85 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: back to the place where the CDC is evidence based, 86 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: science base and not functioning as a political arm of 87 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: the administration. You know, hopefully in my lifetime, but we'll see. 88 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: We continue to get farther away every single day, watching 89 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: people on social media clap and applaud the changes on 90 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: the CDC website, saying, oh my gosh, look what the 91 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: CDC is finally admitting. They're finally admitting that there may 92 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: be a link with vaccines and cancers. No, they didn't 93 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: do that at all. And no, this isn't the quote 94 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: quote unquote CDC that's doing this. This is Under Secretary 95 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: Kennedy's CDC and the people that he chose are changing 96 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: the web page. This is not a neutral body anymore. 97 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: It hasn't been for probably over a decade, if it 98 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: ever was. Thanks for listening to Wellness on MASS I'm 99 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: doctor Nicole Safire and this has been your weekly rundown. 100 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: Be sure to listen to iHeartRadio wherever you get your podcasts, 101 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: and I'll see you next time.