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I have the honor and privilege to bring on Dr. Jeffrey Picillo, who is from Florida and actually is no stranger to network marketing. He has built up massive teams in this industry. His background not only includes being an orthopedic surgeon with 30 years in practice, but he also specializes in anti-aging medicine and regenerative care. He owns a med spa and said yes to LifeVantage about 60 days ago because of GLP-1.
So, Dr. Jeffrey, I'm going to pass it to you to kind of break down some of the science for us and some of the things that we learned this weekend at launch.
Yeah, Rachel, thank you so much for inviting me on this call tonight. I'm honored to be here, and I just saw it turned over to 500. That is absolutely amazing! You know, when I was first introduced to LifeVantage, this product was not even announced yet. My first two meetings with the person that put me in, Lindy Ritz, were "no" and then "hell no." I had done two before and had done very, very well in them, but I know how much work it is, and I just wasn't interested in doing it again.
But somebody let it slip that there was a weight loss product coming out, and I was on the rocket ship of Vice Alice when their weight loss product came out. When I realized what this was a few days later, I understood how massive and how big this is going to be and how much it is really going to help people.
I've been using prescription GLP-1s in practice for about three years now, and we've had some success, but we've also had about a 40% dropout rate. That's because of the side effects: diarrhea, constipation, nausea, and reflux. Then there's the cost, so we would have about a 40% dropout. When I heard what this was, I knew it was going to be huge. I wanted to hop on the rocket ship and ride it with my team and with Keem Hart to the top, and that's why I got in.
The excitement from this weekend's meeting is incredible. I'm still excited! They announced it Friday night, and I didn't sleep at all Friday night. Saturday night, I went out and celebrated with some of the people on the team, but still didn't sleep much, sending out texts and emails. This is so exciting!
GLP-1 is a peptide, and what peptides do is bind to a receptor site and cause their effect on different organs. With GLP-1, it helps regulate blood sugar, appetite, and the speed of digestion. It reacts to these receptor sites. But here's the interesting thing: with RS, which you take to make it, it will boost your own endogenous GLP-1. It's not a supplement; we're not taking GLP-1. We're having the body make its own GLP-1.
Let me explain how that works. If you're making your own GLP-1, you have an endless supply. If you look at the science—and I dove deep into the science; I'm a science guy—the injectable GLP-1 drugs that are out there, we all have heard about them. The half-life, which means what it takes to get rid of half of those drugs in our system, is about seven days. It takes four to five weeks for the drug to completely go away.
But that's not the interesting part. The interesting part is that once the drug binds to its receptor, it only stays there for about two minutes, and then it's metabolized and excreted in the kidneys. So it doesn't hang out long. If you think you're injecting one injection a week, by the end of the week, everything that you injected has been used up and excreted. You're not making your own, and the stuff that you inject causes the body to see a higher level of GLP-1, so the body stops making its own GLP-1. It's depending completely on that shot.
Because of that, this is the answer. That's why I'm so, so excited about this. Now, what we're doing is giving the body the building blocks to increase its own GLP-1. When the study came out—and you know, Friday when they announced this—the results of the study showed it increased people's GLP-1 by 140%. That's absolutely amazing!
Now, every day, there's GLP-1 that can bind to these receptors. Where are these receptors? There are receptors in the pancreas that help increase insulin secretion. There are receptors in the muscle that lines the stomach to decrease and slow down digestion. There are receptors in the brain that suppress appetite. There are receptors in the heart that are cardiac protective, increasing heart health and decreasing the risk of high blood pressure and heart failure—all the things associated with diabetes.
That's why this drug is so amazing; it decreases all those effects of diabetes and is neuroprotective. If someone has high blood sugars, even if you're borderline high, it can affect your nerves. Patients get something called diabetic neuropathy, where their feet go numb. It's all because of the nerves being attacked by the sugar. This is also nerve protective.
The amazing things that came out of this study are that it helps your relationship with food. It decreases your cravings, emotional eating, and impulse. It helps you with that balance between life and weight loss. It's hard to believe, but maybe it's not: 82% of Americans think about their weight.
So that one thing shows what a problem obesity is. Depending on what state you live in, anywhere from 30% to 40% of the United States population is obese. Now we have a solution. We have a solution that everyone can get. You don't have to go to your doctor; there are no needles, and no labs are needed to go on this supplement. We take it to make it. We just take the supplement, and it gives us the building blocks to make GLP-1. It's absolutely amazing!
If we look at the results, the results of the study are up on the screen: a 12-week human clinical study. I can tell you that with all the other companies I've ever been in, nobody has done a true study. They've done things called white papers, which were written by the company, but it's not an actual clinical study. Here, they did a human clinical study for 12 weeks, increasing GLP-1 by 140% on average.
Average weight loss was nine pounds in the first eight weeks. If you think about what we're talking about, we're taking something—building blocks—so the body can make its own GLP-1. It's going to be a slow, low ramp-up: nine pounds in the first eight weeks, but up to 25 pounds—two pounds a week—in 12 weeks. That's equal to what the prescription drugs are doing. That's exactly where we want patients to be when they're on the prescription drugs: about two pounds a week.
If you lose more than that, two things happen. One is, chances are you're going to lose your gallbladder because rapid weight loss causes gallbladder disease. Number two, you're probably going to lose your hair because rapid weight loss causes hair loss. So, two pounds a week is exactly where we want to be.
The next one's amazing: 100% of those who lost weight did not lose muscle. We would see in our office all the time what we refer to as "OIC butt." They'd come in, they lost their weight, but they also lost their booty. Everything is hanging, and it was a problem. But with this, we're not seeing that. I was thinking about how we were going to combat that problem. The NAD activator would absolutely help us build muscle, but we may not need it. It may be a good protective mechanism to add on, but with the study, we don't need to build the muscle. It seems like the muscle stayed.
The next one is really, really, really, really important: a 27% loss of visceral fat. This is the fat that surrounds your organs. This is the fat that is linked to heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, and early death. A 27% loss in visceral fat! If you look at some of the studies that were done on the prescription drugs, it's less than half that. There are studies out that show the loss of visceral fat on the prescription drugs is somewhere between 4.5% and 8%. So this is three times the high end of what we were seeing with the prescription drugs. Absolutely amazing!
Eighty-two percent took control back from food. Ninety-five percent lost their sugar cravings. This is making people feel great! I'll tell you, I just started it this weekend, and I feel great on it. Sugar cravings are down. Food noise—when you walk past the pantry and think you need to grab a chocolate chip cookie—none of that!
I have been on multiple variations of the prescription drugs, and I feel so much better in the three days that I was on the Mbody GLP-1 system. I feel tremendously better. The other thing is it's patent pending. The company, LifeVantage, is going through the trouble of submitting paperwork. I personally own three trademarks, so I know what it takes. It takes attorneys and months. This is patent pending; they're going through the trouble of making this a patented product.
Look at the results! These are some of the people that were in the study. Look at the weight loss and the inches lost. It's absolutely amazing! Most people are down 14 pounds in three weeks, 20 pounds in four weeks. They're losing the weight; they're not losing muscle mass, and they're probably saving their own lives by decreasing their visceral fat. Absolutely amazing!
You can see how excited I am, Dr. Jeff. I even learned so much more about that. I had no idea that we had GLP-1 receptors in our brain, but that would make sense why you have control over your thoughts. Control over that was the number one thing.
These participants were in what I call our second trial. We had the clinical trial, which was 12 weeks of basically non-LifeVantage people, mostly. Then we had another 55 people that were invited to get early access to the product—my husband, myself included—and some of the people you're going to hear from here in a second.
These are real people. What I love, and I'm going to share a few of the stories here in a second, is that people are not going on a crazy diet, Dr. J. They're not saying, "I didn't touch a cookie, I didn't go out to eat, I cut alcohol." Most of the people I'm talking to are like, "I'm just doing everything that I normally do. I didn't start some P90X or crazy workout regimen or the Orange Theory. I just am a little less hungry. I just am snacking less. I just think about food less. I just don't go back for seconds."
This is the solution! Where are my ladies at? Guys, drop a four in the chat! My ladies, I love some of these results. Six weeks over here on the left: that's 10 pounds, 5 in energy, amazing sleep. Kim in the middle: 16 pounds down; literally, her waist is cinching in by the day.
How many of you have experienced a plateau in weight loss? In fact, Marcy, this is one of the things in my inbox this weekend: "I'm at a plateau, Dr. Jeff. I'm on GLP-1, I'm on, you know, Glutide." We see this in practice all the time. That was one of the other dropout things: people would plateau for three, four, five weeks at a time. They're spending a hundred bucks a week, and they don't want to plateau for five weeks. They don't want to spend 500 bucks and not lose a pound.
So we absolutely would see it. I just love to see that people who've maybe been stuck at a steady weight are saying, "Oh my gosh, down 5.2 pounds, 8.8, and a 1.5% body fat, and an increase in lean muscle mass." That is crazy!
We have a beautiful married couple here, Stephanie and Jake. Over there on the left, they've lost about 9 and 13 pounds collectively in six weeks. Tyler Daniels: let's talk about that—over 20 pounds lost in the last nine weeks.
I have the honor to bring on our first guest speaker from that club. It was the second kind of trial users—not in the clinical trial, but kind of doing your own. Marcy, you and Dandi are an incredible power couple. You've been a police officer, and he is a chiropractor, a brilliant mind and a scientific advisory board member of our amazing company. You are so jacked to get on this product, and it's done wonders for you.
Tell us— I wish I could see more of your face, but I can see it in the camera. Tell us how you're feeling and how it's working for you.
Yeah, well, and you know it's me because look at my backdrop, right? It's the same backdrop where I took my pictures. But guys, seriously, before we found out that we had earned this trip and were able to go get on these amazing products as part of Club 55, where I found myself was in my mid-50s. I'm a grandma, and I had gained weight because I had been pretty sedentary, working hard, and had a lot of projects on my plate. But I hadn't been moving my body as much.
It didn't seem to matter because even when I was exercising and eating the right things, I could not lose the weight because I was in my mid-50s. That explains everything! But along with that came a lot of emotional load. I look at these pictures, and it makes me want to cry because the person in the before photos would look at herself in the mirror and say, "You look horrible! I can't believe you're trying to go outside looking like that. Your clothes are so tight; they don't fit the way they should. Everybody's going to see those fat rolls."
Does anybody resonate with that? Because our weight loss journey or our weight journey is such an emotional thing for us. So many of us have been up and down and up and up and up in our weight, and we are so out of control with it. When we heard Lisa Barnes talk about how it's not our fault, there's something inside of our bodies that stops working.
When we were able to get activated with this GLP-1—we can say the name now, Mind Body GLP-1 system—I was thrilled because on day one, I noticed a difference. My mind started to change. I no longer desired the sweets that they put in front of us at these events, and I was able to say no to cookies.
On day two, I was starting to see myself differently. I was standing in front of a mirror, shaking up the powder for my husband and me, and I looked at myself and said, "You look thinner already." From that point on, it has just completely progressed in the connection between my mind and my body. I started to see a transition in myself—not just in my physical being, but in my mental, my emotional, and everything that makes up who I am.
I finally got connected to my true self, and I feel like I'm living life out loud as this person. Here you see these pictures: day 45, down 8.4 pounds. Just so you know, I'm into my eighth week this week, and I'm actually down 9.2 pounds now, over 13 inches that I have lost. My sleep has never been better. This Aura ring tells me I'm in my 90s for my sleep score.
My husband and I are doing this together, which is really awesome. If you can do that with your partner or spouse, do it! On top of it, we have actually, because we've lost the cravings, we don't desire to eat the things that aren't good for us anymore. We're eating less, and we are saving so much on our grocery bill that we're going to be able to pay for our systems for both of us because we've reduced the cost. Our minds are telling us that we need to choose better food, and so we're choosing the right things.
But I don't know, Rachel, do you want me to talk about my blood work, my blood results? You know what they say: all's fair in love and weight loss, so I think we should share it. Yes, I will say this too: my husband and I, for the first time, are sharing dinners out—like sharing entrees. If people are thinking cost-wise, our average bill out is like $30 or $40 less because we're literally eating less food. It's just phenomenal!
So yes, tell me about your blood work real quick.
Okay, so first of all, keep in mind this is the most simple thing that you're going to add into your lifestyle that you have ever done that actually works. It's that missing piece. I did before blood work and after 45-day blood work, and I did that so you don't have to.
I want you to know what my results were: my cholesterol in 45 days went down 31 points. My glucose went down eight points. My A1 went down three points. My cortisol went down 5.4 points. My insulin went down 4.8 points—all by using the Mind Body GLP-1 system.
Now, the Marcy that sits here in front of you is the me that I have always meant to be. This is who God created me to be, and I'm actually able to step into it with the power in the knowing and being in control and having the confidence that I now have after this amazing journey.
I cannot wait! I am so excited for every single one of you to experience what I've experienced, what my husband has experienced, and what every other person that has used this system has experienced because it's worked for everyone. I am so excited! Thank you so much, Rachel, for letting me share that part of my story. And it's still going because I plan on being that person in the third or fourth week that loses that extra 15 to 17 pounds.