Taking 2.4 mg of semaglutide (Ozempic) for 68 weeks resulted in a reduction of food intake and a loss of nearly 17% of body weight nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE… But the weight you lose from this drugs is different than the typical weight that's lost from dieting or bariatric surgery. About 40% of it comes from lean body mass (which is mostly muscle) in comparison to nearly half that with calorie restriction or bariatric surgery (22% and 25%, respectively) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3309… and ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… Semaglutide also reduces the amount of insulin you secrete after eating a ‘mixed meal’ by about 35% - a healthier response. However, it also raises your fasting insulin by 15.5% - an unhealthy response. Heart rate also increases by 6-20 beats per minute, and it spurs the creation and preservation of new small fat cells that contain many small lipid droplets (multilocular) nature.com/articles/srep3627… and pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2894… and dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley… and jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(2… Semaglutide does many things, many of which are yet to be discovered

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Across the literature the average suggestion of how much water to drink each day (independent of intake during exercise) is 8oz per waking hour for the first 10hrs of the day. Then 5oz/hr thereafter. Not necessarily on the hour but on average. In heat, obviously drink more.