2024-02-29 04:51:53
A new study sheds light on an important step that must be adhered to in order to benefit from weight loss medications in the long term, and not regain unhealthy weight following stopping taking them, according to the newspaper “Washington Post“American.
The study emphasized the importance of exercise, explaining that people who exercised while using weight loss medications maintained their ideal weight following stopping the medication, compared to people who did not exercise.
Many people with obesity have resorted to new medications that have gained great popularity recently to lose weight. These medications were originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes.
These drugs belong to a class called GLP-1 agonists and include semaglutide, the main ingredient in drugs such as Ozempic and Wigovi, and terzepatide, which is found in drugs such as Mongaro.
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Many people with obesity have resorted to new weight loss medications, which were originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes.
Despite their success in weight loss, many people stop taking these medications within a year, studies show, because of their cost, side effects, or other reasons.
Recently published studies found that stopping the use of these medications makes a person regain his lost weight, according to the American newspaper.
Worryingly, the weight people regain tends to be almost entirely fat with little muscle, making the person less metabolically healthy than they were before they started taking these medications.
The new study conducted in Denmark showed that those who exercised while taking medications maintained their new weight during that stage.
Many of them remained at least 10 percent lighter than they were at the start of the study, and at least some of the weight they regained was muscle, making them healthier than the other groups.
Siggen Sørensen Torekov, a professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Copenhagen and senior author of the new study, said the findings “strongly suggest that people who use medications may be able to maintain a healthy weight,” even following stopping the medications, “but they need to exercise.” “.
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The exercises performed on the group that participated in the study were mostly vigorous, as the subjects might barely speak while practicing them.
“The results are very encouraging,” said Robert Kushner, an endocrinologist and professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine who specializes in weight loss.
“But more studies need to be done to see if a lower-intensity exercise routine has similar effects on weight maintenance” when people stop taking GEP-1 drugs, he added.
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