49: Obesity Expert Dr. Spencer Nadolsky Weighs in on Ozempic
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week’s podcast discusses the use of semaglutide medications for weight loss. While we acknowledge that this is a controversial topic in the medical and fitness communities, we’re always open to hearing all sides of the conversation. Any and all opinions stated in this podcast are the guests and hosts opinions and do not represent Primal Kitchen or its parent company.
Tune in as Morgan discusses fitness, the obesity epidemic, and the weight loss drug Ozempic® with board-certified obesity and lipid specialist, Dr. Spencer Nadolsky. Inspired by his childhood growing up in an athletic family, Spencer blends his affinity for fitness with practical medical knowledge and currently serves as medical director for one of the largest online medical obesity treatment programs. You can also find him on Instagram, where he uses clever memes to dispel myths about weight loss and obesity. In this episode, Spencer discusses his weight loss ideologies, the science behind food cravings, and why people are turning to Ozympic for help. He also weighs in on the controversy surrounding this popular drug and the ethics of using semaglutide for everyday weight loss.
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| 0:00.0 | I know people are like listening to this guy is definitely getting paid by Big Pharma because he's like overzealous about these men. |
| 0:05.1 | They're they're incredible. I've never I've never seen anything like it. |
| 0:10.1 | Hey everyone. I'm Morgan, co-founder of Primal Kitchen and host of the Primal Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:14.6 | Today I'm super excited to be chatting with Dr. Spencer Nodalski. Dr. Nodalski's board certified obesity and lipid specialist and the medical |
| 0:21.7 | director for one of the largest online medical obesity treatment programs called CWIS. Before we get |
| 0:26.9 | started, a brief reminder that any and all opinions and views shared by host and guests on this |
| 0:30.7 | podcast are the speaker's own and do not represent the view of Primal Pitchin or its affiliates |
| 0:34.5 | or parent company. Hello, Dr. Nodalski. Welcome. How are you? Good, good, good. |
| 0:40.1 | Thanks for having me on. Yeah, I'm so excited. This like whole GLP1 medication, OZMPIC, like, trend is just, |
| 0:48.3 | it seems like sweeping the world right now. And I've been dying to talk to just an expert in the |
| 0:51.9 | weight loss space on your take on the whole thing. |
| 1:00.6 | So before we get into it, like, why don't you just give the audience a little background on how you got into being an obesity specialist? |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah, I grew up in a very, like, educated, athletic-minded family. |
| 1:09.2 | So I used a lot of nutrition, exercise science to be a good athlete. |
| 1:13.2 | Went and ended up playing football and wrestled in college. |
| 1:14.5 | I was at UNC Chapel Hill. |
| 1:15.9 | Was there heavyweight? |
| 1:17.3 | Did pretty well there. |
| 1:18.9 | But I went to medical school thinking, like, I don't really want to deal with, like, performance. |
| 1:24.7 | I want to help people take a fraction of my passion and for |
| 1:29.2 | prevention of cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes and that type of thing. So I went to actually |
| 1:36.0 | family medicine, which looking back, maybe not the right move. It doesn't really matter because |
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