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Seriously, please watch this before you take GLP-1s (reta, ozempic, tirzepatide)

Name: Seriously, please watch this before you take GLP-1s (reta, ozempic, tirzepatide)
Uploaded: 2026-06-07T21:00:09.000Z
Duration: 8 min 18 s
Channel: Sean OMara, MD JD, Health & Performance Optimizing

Sean OMara, MD JD, Health & Performance OptimizingJune 7, 20268m

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Introduction and Purpose0:00 What These Drugs Do Inside the Body0:31 Visual Examples of Fat Types1:31 Side Effects - Muscle Loss3:00 What Happens When You Stop Taking the Drugs4:30 Questions to Ask Before Starting5:00 Who These Drugs Are Best For and Not For5:30 What to Do If You're Already Taking GLP-1 Drugs6:31

In a Nutshell

Dr. Sha Omeira warns that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and tirzepatide suppress appetite and cause weight loss but also strip away muscle and fail to distinguish between harmful visceral fat and beneficial subcutaneous fat. Weight returns rapidly after stopping, often as disease-driving fat, creating dependency unless tracked properly. He insists on baseline and follow-up MRIs instead of scales to measure real changes in muscle and visceral fat, and stresses lifestyle change over relying on medication.

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If you're thinking about taking a Zepic, Tzepides, reatride or any of the GLP-1 drugs for that matter, or someone close to you is, please give me the next few minutes before you make that decision. I'm Dr. Sha Omeira. I'm a physician and researcher, and I've spent years treating patients for what's underneath obesity, visceral fat disease, the metabolic damage, the things most doctors don't even measure.

In this video, I'll explain what these drugs actually do inside your body, the side effects almost nobody else warns you about, what happens when you stop taking them, the questions to ask before you start, and if you're already on one, exactly what to do so you don't end up regretting it.

What they are good at is suppressing the appetite. And because of that, your body shrinks because you're not eating as much and you become really catabolic. Now, to be sure, mostly you're catabolic consuming fat tissue. But what these drugs don't differentiate is the type of fat.

Does your doctor before he or she writes a script, do they know the difference between subcutaneous fat and visceral fat disease, inflammatory fat disease around your heart, around your organs, and filling your muscle? Should they be writing the script if they don't know the difference between that and that there's different types of subcutaneous fat, one is beneficial, the other is disease?

This is the problem with modern-day medicine. They don't know. And it's not taught in medical school, but I want to show you that difference.

First, this is visceral fat disease. The white stuff inside the abdomen. This is a super healthy individual with just a little bit of visceral fat inside their atom. Mostly the dark stuff, muscle and organ.

These are also muscles being filled with fat. These are the legs of this person filled with visceral fat. Are you beginning to see this trend? There's a lot of fat inside this person, a lot of fat inside their muscle. This person has huge, beautiful, healthy muscles. Their legs are large, filled with muscle, very little fat. So this is bad and this is good.

And subcutaneous fat is the fat on the outside. See this black line? This black line differentiates between deep subcutaneous fat, D for disease. It's inflammatory from the beneficial good subcutaneous fat called superficial subcutaneous fat and filled with rich atapene.

You just learned a lot more than what any physician probably writing scripts will ever tell you about this. You need to know what is happening inside your body. That's why I advocate everybody get an MRI and see what's going on.

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Seriously, please watch this before you take GLP-1s (reta, ozempic, tirzepatide)

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