NAT-STORY1D-220524-ND-Being overweight is ‘not your fault’ and advances in medical research could see the end. To obesity - an expert explains - video Dailymotion

Weight loss expert Dr Martin Carlsson discusses recent advances in the treatment of obesity.

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00:00 Yes, I mean there are many myths and misconceptions about surrounding obesity and overweight.

00:12 But I think one of the biggest myths is that it's your own fault that you are fat or overweight

00:17 and that obesity and overweight is due to having a bad character and you are lazy.

00:25 That if you just tightened up you would be able to eat less, exercise more, lose weight

00:30 easily.

00:31 But that is totally wrong, you know.

00:33 We know that obesity and morbid obesity are chronic diseases and we have now understood

00:38 that this disease is due to the brain's diet and hunger centres not being governed in the

00:44 normal way in patients living with obesity.

00:47 How do weight loss treatments like injections work and what sets Jason apart from other

00:52 methods?

00:53 I mean there are many new modern drugs but some of the more modern drugs like semaglutide

01:04 and tirosapatide, they are given once a week in injections, in injection pens and they

01:12 are quite easy to give and the patients manage them themselves.

01:19 So they take injections once a week and often due to, sometimes you have side effects, gastrointestinal

01:30 side effects, a little nausea, a little obstipation, a little heartburn and so on.

01:37 So you increase the dose quite slow actually.

01:43 So and then the body adapts to that so often the side effects, they disappear after a month

01:53 or so.

01:54 So very few people actually stop the medication.