401: Natural GLP-1 vs. Manmade GLP-1 Injections: The Real Impact Both Have On Your Health

Anita 0:00

Okay, let's think about this for a moment. Number one, what Jarrod says, what gets you there needs to be able to keep you there. Do you really want to keep paying to do this, and also to keep injecting yourself for the rest of your life? Were Adam and Eve required, or did they need to inject themselves to be able to maintain a healthy weight and optimal health? Let's talk about that. So even if you're one of the ones that gets some results, are the results going to last? Is what gets you there gonna keep you there? You have accomplished so much in your life, But what if you could at least 10X that because your body is finally backing you up 100%? That's what Jarrod and I help Christian entrepreneurs do. We are so excited to have you joining us on Power On Plants today. This is the podcast where we harness the incredible power of whole plant foods, along with God's Word, to optimize your energy and your productivity so you can maximize your revenue, reach, and impact. I'm Anita Roussel, a nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach.

Jarrod 2:11

And I'm Jarrod Roussel, a physician assistant certified in lifestyle medicine. As the plant-based productivity experts, executive performance coaches to purpose-driven Christian entrepreneurs, we show you the exciting way to fuel your body the way it was perfectly designed to thrive. So inflammation naturally fades away and your energy skyrockets, and you can finally have the body that fully backs you in living your God-given dreams without any exhausting dieting methods, like a stacking list of meds to manage symptoms, or keep up with numbers, small portions, Or willpowering through your meals you don't even like in another attempt to get healthy.

Anita 2:45

We know that there's so much confusing information out there about how to heal your body that it can exhaust you. So if you're thinking, "I just wish someone would walk me through the exact system to finally feeling good in the way that's enjoyable so at last," that's exactly what we do inside the Accelerator Experience. Join the wait list to find out when applications for the next cohort become available at poweronplants.com/accelerator. And today we're discussing a very hot topic of GLP-1, and we wanna hit this from a different angle and discuss with you why GLP-1 is not the best idea for long-term health First, I wanna focus on the reality of can you get some results with this? Well, it depends on what you mean by results. And Jarrod was telling me today, and this kinda surprised me, that there are a lot of people that take it that don't even get weight loss results

Jarrod 3:38

There are 20% of people that take these types of medications that get zero weight loss.

Anita 3:43

I had no idea

Jarrod 3:44

About a third will actually get significant weight loss, the type of results that they seem to promise without promising on all the commercials, 'cause you see all the happy people, and they're active, and they're losing weight. That's a third of the

Anita 3:55

They paint a great picture, don't they?

Jarrod 3:57

They paint an amazing picture on TV.

Anita 4:00

they get to the side effects list.

Jarrod 4:03

Until they get to the side effects list. Well, then that, they just kinda gloss through very quickly with speed reading that nobody can understand, until you get to the last thing that says, "And may cause death." That one kinda perks our attention. But a third of people get significant weight loss, 20% get none. That leaves just shy of 50% that get a little bit, five pounds, 10 pounds. So they get some, but i- are most of those people really wanting only five to 10 pounds of weight loss? No

Anita 4:30

and I would even say ultimately is what you're going after just weight loss, or are you going after quality of life? Because if you're using this medication to lose weight, you can end up with a whole host of side effects that you may not be familiar with. If you're even considering or know someone who's considering taking this, look for testimonials online of people who have taken it. There are whole forums filled with people who are actively experiencing the side effects, and they are not fun, and sometimes they can be permanent. Side effects like gastroparesis, that's where your digestive system shuts down and no longer moves the food through. That causes a whole host of problems. Imagine having a paralyzed digestive tract

Jarrod 5:14

Well, with gastroparesis, it basically translates into stomach paralysis. So you eat food, but it just stays in your stomach

Anita 5:22

That's miserable. That's awful. And not only is it miserable, you can't get your nutrients

Jarrod 5:27

And that food has to go somewhere. If it doesn't go forward, it's gonna have to come backwards, and obviously that is a very unpleasant thought Very common side effects that we see with the medication that are very regular are things like nausea, constipation, maybe even some vomiting, but intense nausea sometimes to the point of needing medication for a day or two to manage that nausea. And for a lot of patients, it happens for a day or two after they take the shot each and every week. Now, for a lot of patients, it does go away and get better, but for many it does not

Anita 6:01

Let's just say you were able to take it for a long time, like for a large portion of a year. Is there a maximum amount of time where they say you really shouldn't be on it beyond this point?

Jarrod 6:11

There really isn't a maximum time that the pharmaceutical companies say that you should be on it. And they say to maintain the results, if you're one of those lucky one-thirds, I use air quotes lucky, to get that significant weight loss, they actually say you need to be on this for the rest of your life

Anita 6:29

Okay, let's think about this for a moment. Number one, what Jarrod says, what gets you there needs to be able to keep you there. Do you really want to keep paying to do this, and also to keep injecting yourself for the rest of your life? Were Adam and Eve required, or did they need to inject themselves to be able to maintain a healthy weight and optimal health? Let's talk about that. So even if you're one of the ones that gets some results, are the results going to last? Is what gets you there gonna keep you there? Do you want to keep injecting yourself the rest of your life? And then add on top of that knowing what the side effects are. What they're doing is the manufacturers are putting out for you to inject in yourself something that God naturally created your body to make in response to eating, guess what? Whole plant foods. And so now you're injecting this synthetic man-made thing that mimics the real thing, and we don't even know what all the real thing does, okay? So men figure out one thing that a real thing does, like GLP-1, that our body naturally produces when it gets whole plant foods, and they take that one idea, and now we've got a whole weight loss revolution going on around it. And maybe they know more than one thing about it. Maybe there are multiple things, 'cause they're like, "It helps with type 2 diabetes. It helps with this, it helps with that." But we don't know everything that that thing does. What we do know is that natural GLP-1, the kind that God made your body to create in response to eating whole plant foods, Genesis 1:29, is that that GLP-1 stays in your body a certain length of time. And how long is that, Jarrod?

Jarrod 8:09

It has a natural half-life of 10 minutes, which means after about an hour, whatever, if it was released just one time, I believe that there's going to be a continuum, meaning it releases some, and as it continues to be exposed to food, you're going to see almost like this bell curve

Anita 8:25

That doesn't happen with the injection either. It's a once, you're getting that one-time shot. Now you're going to be giving it at different intervals, but it's not gonna be the natural release of

Jarrod 8:34

No, it won't be the natural release, but if you were to take just a certain amount and release it from your gut, after about an hour, most all that's gonna be gone.

Anita 8:43

in the natural way

Jarrod 8:44

in the natural way, whereas with the synthetic version, it takes about a month and a half. It has a one-week half-life, meaning it takes upward of a month and a half for that to be gone.

Anita 8:53

Or the one injection,

Jarrod 8:55

the one injection, and every week you're injecting again

Anita 8:57

That's going to last how long? Every week you're injecting it again, and it's gonna last an additional one and a half months. Is that what you're saying, in your body? Yeah. So then it's going to keep stacking upon itself, so we shouldn't wonder why these things that can make us feel full

Jarrod 9:13

Yeah. Well, the hormone naturally slows down the gut in response to the food. So here's the natural way. You have cells at the end of your small intestines that once they sense the presence of carbohydrates and fats, it releases GLP-1. One effects of GLP-1 is to slow down the gut. If you look at our digestive tract, we're herbivores. Plants take longer to digest. When we have beneficial bacteria in our gut, they break down a lot of the fiber, that fiber surrounds the cells within the plants where the nutrients are. So then that allows for more of the nutrients to be released. Well, if you slow down the gut, that food has a longer time that it stays in your digestive tract so it can do what it needs to do. That's the natural way. But then whenever you use a synthetic version, it has the same effect, but that medication stays around far longer than it was ever intended, and that's where you get these problems, the gastroparesis, the chronic constipation. And sometimes those do not go away once the medication is stopped. Sadly, I do have a patient, I did not give her the GLP-1 medication, but she is an established patient of mine. She's been off that medication for months now, and that constipation has not gone away. Whoever was providing it for her, this was more like a boutique service, and that's all they did. And once she said, "Hey, I've got problems here," they say, "Well, I'm sorry, we don't handle that." So thankfully, we have been able to find a medication to manage that for her, but that's not the ideal way.

Anita 10:46

because now you're managing a new symptom, a new problem that you have. And constipation is a bad problem

Jarrod 10:51

I don't know when that will go away. I mean, we really don't... For those people that had that effect, we don't know how long that's gonna last. I mean, sometimes it could be for years

Anita 10:59

But when you don't understand biology, you're just thinking, "Oh, that's, yeah, constipation's uncomfortable, it's painful, it's not good for me." but maybe you're not thinking about the fact that when you have constipation and things don't move through the way they should, it can actually cause tears in your digestive tract. It can cause tears to where you end up with pockets in there where food gets stuck, and now you have a whole other problem that is crippling, it is life altering, where you have pain because bacteria and things are growing in the pockets where the food resides. It's awful, and so there are all these different thing. It's not just that one thing. I'm just giving you one example of what happens. So we just think, "Oh, constipation," you know, for some people it may just be a mild inconvenience, or maybe it's just what you're used to, because maybe you've lived that way your entire life, and you don't know there's another way. I'm here to tell you there's another way. you are not meant to have to deal with that

Jarrod 11:50

And it's not normal. And the condition that Anita was just describing is called diverticulitis, which is inflammation of these pouches. So the diverticulosis is the condition. Diverticulitis is the inflammation where you're getting the bacteria stuck in there. Now you have these infections, and they can get worse and worse, and then you can become even what's called septic, where you have bacteria circulating through your body. So these aren't just slight inconveniences. I mean, these can be significant medical issues

Anita 12:18

And do you ever ask yourself questions like, okay, so if I'm taking something or my friend is taking something that their body naturally produces, but it's the synthetic, and so you're thinking, okay, now I know that that synthetic lasts a month and a half in your system, but the natural one only lasts how long, Jarrod? About

Jarrod 12:40

About an hour and a half

Anita 12:41

hour and a half. An hour and a half. Then we have to ask the question, what? What would you ask? What is going on there? What is that going to cause? what's all the fallout from having something in my body that's only supposed to last minutes, now it's there for a month and a half, and now we're stacking that on each other dose after dose after dose. I don't think we know all of what that's causing

Jarrod 13:01

And it makes sense that if you, again, step back away, look at the bigger picture, look at the process, the biological process going on, once that GLP wears off, then the food that is digested in your digestive tract, it needs to be evacuated. So now the digestive tract starts to move more. Then it goes into the colon, where the body naturally absorbs any extra water in there, and then you eliminate it. I mean, it's a beautiful process that God created, but we're, in essence, hijacking that with use of these medications. And it's no surprise it comes with problems, potential side effects, potential long-term consequences. And I'd like to go into another shocker here, cause most people don't hear this, but up to 25% of the weight loss, and this isn't so much a side effect like the, the stomach paralysis, up to 25% of the weight loss is actually lean muscle mass loss. So you're losing 10 pounds. Up to two-and-a-half pounds of that is muscle mass loss. I mean, that's staggering. I think if more people knew that, they'd say, "Oh, my goodness." 'Cause if you wanna lose 50 pounds, well, that's what? T- up to 12-and-a-half pounds of lean body mass loss

Anita 14:11

That's not good. That's not what you're going for. But who's telling you that when they're writing the prescription? These are the things that you need to know before you make the decision to do something that is not normal. So is it easy? I mean, is the whole process of getting to a doctor and getting the prescription and getting your insurance to pay for it, and then having to inject yourself and dealing...

Jarrod 14:30

don't gloss over that one. Getting the Insurance to pay for it. I mean, that can be a nightmare because they say they cover it, but then there are all kinds of exclusions and, "Oh, you don't meet this criteria." Like, "What do you mean? I'm overweight." Yeah, but did you fail three other, attempts at weight loss?" maybe, maybe not." "Well, if you didn't, then we're not gonna pay for this medication." So please go into this with your eyes wide open if you're even halfway considering it. But like Anita is saying, there is a better way

Anita 15:00

So what we've covered so far, and I may leave out some things because we've given a lot of information, but what we've covered so far is that a lot of people don't even get results. Of those that get results, you're putting something that's not natural into your body. You're injecting it. You're having to manage all the steps. So now you've gone to the doctor, you've proven it to your insurance, now you've gotta get it at the pharmacy. Now you need to inject yourself on a regular basis. Now there's something in your body that was only meant to be there for a very short amount of time, like a- an hour or so, and instead, it's gonna last up to a month and a half, each dose, and you're stacking that on itself. And so then we have those side effects like gastroparesis and different things we talked about. Jarrod even told me blindness was one of the side effects. It's not as

Jarrod 15:43

common, but it has been discussed in literature. I mean, we're talking blindness, not just blurry vision, blindness. So we need to have a, full understanding of the risk when pursuing these types of medications

Anita 15:57

So again, what we want you to ask is, do I have something that I wanna accomplish in my life? Something really big. You probably already accomplished a whole lot. Most of our clients have. And so you have all these dreams of things you wanna do, but your body's not doing what you need it to. It's not showing up in that way. And maybe weight's one of the big problems, or maybe it's type 2 diabetes or something that's causing you to even consider taking GLP-1. But we're showing up here because we want you to understand what these things do in your body, and just start asking the basic questions of, why is this so hard? Does God create processes that are hard? Well, Anita, our modern day, it's different, and we do things different today. And so, well, is modern better? Or is God's way better because it's so very simple and has none of these side effects, and it's actually enjoyable when you learn how to do it with a system that allows you to break free from our modern-day society and the foods that your body is used to

Jarrod 16:53

Have his ways changed Up until the last 150, maybe 200 years, we were doing all these things the same way with regard to food. It's only in the last 100 to 150 years that we've even learned what different vitamins are. We didn't know all this stuff. We just followed solid principles, getting back to the garden, getting outside in the fresh air and sunshine, doing honest work, getting good restful sleep at night. We didn't have all these bright modern lights disrupting our sleep. We were following most of these principles. Now, there probably was stress back then, but, there were probably some people that said, "You know what? The stress, that's for the birds. I'm just gonna, lead a, stress-free or low-stress life." We were following those principles. But now that we've gotten into our modern society, the modern technologies... Uh, yes

Anita 17:38

Modern medical system, which I hate to say that because we're not against medications. We say that all the time, but it can be a well-oiled machine

Jarrod 17:46

If you find somebody that has a proper balance, and I highly, highly encourage you to try to find somebody locally to you that is knowledgeable and even certified in lifestyle medicine, because I feel like that has the best where they look at the foundational principles of addressing sleep, addressing food, addressing movement, addressing stress, positive relationships, and helping you to eliminate risky substances, tobacco, drugs, at the very least limiting alcohol, but really there's no quote-unquote safe level of alcohol intake. And if we can optimize those choices, most of the conditions we have would be gone. they wouldn't even be there to require medications. And then they have the training where if a medication is needed, if you're in a situation where maybe, Lord willing, you're not in a situation, but maybe it might even save your life. Well, it's good to know that. Let's save your life, then maybe let's talk about the diet and the exercise and the sleep and all that so that you never get into that position again

Anita 18:45

You can Discover the system that brings real joy and works with the busiest of schedules and you have something that's sustainable for life, that's what we love showing you how to do, and we do that inside our accelerator experience. You can learn more about that at powerimplants.com/accelerator and get on the wait list so that you get notified of when we are accepting applications into the cohort. We only accept a certain number of people, so make sure you get your name on the list if you are more than ready to start feeling better the natural way without having to inject yourself and having all these miserable side effects and not ever getting to the root cause of the problem that's going on in the first place. We're talking about this system that yields natural GLP-1, the enjoyable and exciting way. So there's none of the miserable stuff. Just ask yourself, were the original people doing this? Did God tell them they needed to do this? Where did this stinking thinking come from? Consider, maybe you have a lot of ideas, things that you've thought that are true, that are just not true about what's healthy to eat, and how to get healthy, and how hard it actually is or isn't to get healthy. All these things we believed, And that's what we address right away in the mindset module inside the Accelerator Experience, Because when you have someone that can show you the things that have kept you stuck, those ideas that you've been taught that are the way to get healthy, the things that have never worked before in the past, and you can take and replace those things with what we know works, based not only on our own experience, but based on reliable research, because you have someone who's a PA and a nurse who can look at this stuff, someone who geeks out over it, Jarrod, who knows how to look at it and go, "Hey, this was a reliable study, and it wasn't backed by the Beef Council." or the Egg Council. And we can see how that lines up with the Word of God. And then on top of that, you have two people who are deeply in love with God, who spend our lives at His feet, because we want to see His people set free to fully live their calling. If that resonates with you, Accelerator is gonna be the perfect fit for you. So don't wait. Go right now to get your name on the waitlist at poweronplants.com/accelerator, and we will send you the notification when applications become available. Your life does not have to be difficult. Getting healthy and maintaining health, reversing the top chronic diseases of our time, it is a known fact that whole plant foods are the plants that do that. Could it be that that's because these are the foods that God gave us originally to optimally fuel our body? Those things that the creator of this body, which was made to house you, and to live a long time to do that so that you could accomplish all you're sent here to do. You could help all the people that are out there waiting for you, and you could enjoy and love your life without being robbed of days that are filled with energy, and mental clarity, and excitement. This is what we are all about. Go back if you haven't heard it yet and listen to our episode, it was, like, two or three back, where we talk about healing spirit, soul, and body. It's about Satan doesn't want you well, but God. That is life-changing, and it will tell you where we're coming from, from a spirit and soul aspect. Because you were created to be well, completely whole, and wholly complete, and I explain more about that in that episode. It's something you need to see because it's gonna shift your perspective to what real health is and how to achieve it. So God wants you well, spirit, soul, and body, and that's what we talk about in that episode. You don't wanna miss that one. we want you to consider one thing, just one thing that you've learned from this episode that you can apply to your life to make it better, to go next level with your health. and then take just a moment And let us know about it in a written review on your favorite podcast app. It'll only take you a second, but it will mean the world to us and will keep us coming to you with more of this information that is going to change your life in such amazing ways. know that you are loved. We are praying for you, And we'll see you soon