Dr. Jeffery Galvin - Muscle Loss and Cognitive Decline: Why Weight Loss Drugs Could Be Riskier Than You Think

Cutting Edge Health: Preventing Cognitive Decline

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Over the past few years, we've gotten several effective and massively popular weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wagovi and Mounjaro. Such drugs cause loss of both fat and muscle. The first is good. The second is not. In this episode of the Cutting Edge Health podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Galvin returns to explain the critical connection between muscle mass and cognitive health, emphasizing that reduced muscle mass increases the risk of cognitive decline, falls, and overall mortality, particularly in older adults.

He shares insights from his practice, where patients often struggle to regain muscle, especially women over 50. The episode delves into the importance of strength training, adequate protein intake, and personalized health monitoring to combat muscle loss and maintain long-term health and cognitive function. Dr. Galvin also touches on emerging therapies that could address these issues in the future including a number of clinical trials that are underway to test pharmaceuticals to preserve muscle mass that follows obesity treatments.

Previously, muscle loss was thought to be an issue that doesn't respond to drugs. And yet we now have several promising phase-1 and phase-2 studies for drugs that not only preserve muscle but also improve fat loss — since more muscle makes it easier to lose fat.

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Jeffrey Galvin is the medical director and founder of Vitality Medical Wellness Institute. He is board-certified in emergency medicine and obesity medicine. He served as a major in the United States Air Force, specializing in trauma and emergency care. After completing his military service, he settled in Concord, NC, with his wife and three children. With over 25 years’ experience working in some of the busiest emergency departments in the country, he has cared for over 50,000 emergency and trauma patients.

Dr. Galvin has extensive training and experience in functional medicine, hormonal optimization, fitness, nutrition, genomics and epigenetics, and brain peak performance. He is an expert biohacker experienced in nootropic use, peptide therapies, heart rate variability training, and sleep hacking. His goal is maximizing human performance, reversing chronic disease and optimizing overall health.

Dr. Galvin founded Vitality Medical Wellness Institute in 2010. It was born out of frustration with modern medicine’s focus on treating symptoms of illness, not the underlying causes. The Institute seeks to change the paradigm by which the medical establishment trains doctors to treat chronic medical problems with medication while ignoring the root origins of disease. Dr. Galvin believes that by focusing on nutrition, fitness, hormonal optimization, and permanent lifestyle changes, health can be optimized. By utilizing this approach his patients are able to reverse chronic medical conditions, lose weight and maximize performance. At the same time risk of future disease is minimized.

For more information, visit https://www.vitalitymwi.com/

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