Andrew Huberman· PhD
because if you don't have much appetite you're usually not selecting protein as kind of your first you know line of what you're going to pick and additionally fiber you're not usually going to select as your first
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because if you don't have much appetite you're usually not selecting protein as kind of your first you know line of what you're going to pick and additionally fiber you're not usually going to select as your first
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The Other Place Rhonda where we do pay a lot of attention to protein is in the few of our patients that are taking glp-1 Agonist so I've been a pretty public uh critic might be too strong a word but I've certainly expressed my reservations about the ubiquitous use and the liberal use of glp-1 agonists especially in people you know just trying to lose 10 pounds right like it's one thing if you're 100 pounds overweight and you've tried everything by all means the benefits clearly outweigh the risks but you know the um I got to get my Beachbody on for the wedding this summer I'm going to lose 10 pounds let me fire up some semi-glutide or terzapatide I think that's a net negative personally and in those patients not that we're giving it to those patients but in any patient who's on a glp-1 Agonist we feel it is so essential to hammer home protein because those drugs are so effective at squashing appetite that I mean we've seen people who basically just want to drink alcohol when they're on it and they'll lose weight like crazy because they're you know not getting that many calories but they're like yeah I just like wine yeah I'm just losing muscle drinking wine
but in any patient who's on a gp1 Agonist we feel it is so essential to hammer home protein because those drugs are so effective at squashing appetite that I mean we've seen people who basically just want to drink alcohol when they're on it and they'll lose weight like crazy because they're you know not getting that many calories but they're like yeah I just like wine losing muscle yeah I'm just losing muscle drinking wine
Okay, fine. But if the alternative is they're not getting enough protein and they're on a drug that is making them anorexic, I mean, we know we we also know the downside of that.