You’re Being Lied To About Retatrutide… Here’s the Truth (Doctor Explains)

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[00:00:00]If you've been online doing your homework and research for reach tide, the holy grail, right? And you've been told that it'll give you 29% weight loss. Exciting, right? And that it's the best GLP1 ever made, maybe. But you've been told it has anti-aging benefits, that it can reverse your DNA damage, and that you can lose the weight, stop the drug, and just walk away. You've also been told that it protects your muscles just automatically, right? You're not going to lose any muscle. Every single one of these statements though is false or partially false, so misleading that it might as well be a lie. And the people repeating them on YouTube, I'm sorry to say, are not your friends. So, I'm taking the five biggest lies that are circulating right now about Red True Tide, and breaking down each one. What the lie says, why it's wrong, and what's actually true. And I'm going to go in order, one through five here. And I'm warning you right now, the deeper we go, the worse it gets. I'm Dr. Jones DC. Not only have I coached thousands of patients through GLP-1 and peptide protocols, but you see, I've lost over 100 pounds myself, struggled for a really long time to maintain that. And my mission on this channel is simple.

[00:00:59]Keep you from making the same mistakes that I had to learn the hard way and the ones that I watch patients make every single day. Our medical team handles the prescriptions, and I focus on the foundation work, teaching my coaches to help you guys make these medications actually deliver the results that you were hoping for. So, let's get into it.

[00:01:13]Lie number one, the lie that started this entire hype circle is that you're going to lose 29% of your body weight on Red Chutai. The trial said 29%. It's everywhere. Clip after clip, Reddit thread after Reddit thread. Every influencer with the thumbnail of syringe repeating 29%. Bunch of freaking parrots. Let me tell you what that number actually represents. Because once you understand it, you will never look at that number the same way again. That figure came from the triumph for trial that Eli Liy announced this past December. 28.7% at 68 weeks. Now, here is what that number doesn't tell you.

[00:01:46]So, number one, those are averages at the top dose, 12 milligrams. In our clinic, most patients on Reduide aren't going anywhere near that dose. And when they hit nausea, fatigue, or heart rate issues, that's a massive problem, and we're trying to scale backwards, not forward. We titrate them down often to six or lower. So, whatever you see circulating right now, I need you to mentally just cut that out. Okay. Number two, and the part that's going to get buried underneath the headlines, half of the people in the trial, less than 29%, some significantly less. The people pulling that average of the 29% are the ones that can push through to the top dose for a full year. That's not your average patient. That is the top of the distribution. And three, those are trial conditions, controlled environments, structured protocols, supervised dosing.

[00:02:26]What we see across patients walking into our clinic, real world results are commonly blunted by about 15% to 25%.

[00:02:33]The exact gap of course is going to vary but the direction is consistent. So if the trial said 29% real world lands closer 22 to 25. That's still fantastic.

[00:02:41]I just want to make that clear. And that's only for people who can stay at the top dose which I have problems with entirely. So when you start a true tide and you set your goal at 29% you're not setting yourself up for a realistic outcome. You're setting yourself up for the disappointment that I see in our clinic every single week. People losing 12, 15, 18% and assuming the medication didn't fail them. number that they were told did. They just had a false reality.

[00:03:04]So that's lie number one, what to expect on the scale. But lie number two is a bigger problem because it is about who reatite is actually going to work for.

[00:03:12]And I'm watching even prescribing doctors get this wrong. So lie number two is that reatrite is the best GLP-1 med for everybody, the strongest, the endgame drug, right? If you guys know the Avengers Endgame, the one to switch to if your tzepide stall. Here's why that logic breaks down. See, the most powerful tool is not automatically the best tool. It's just the most demanding.

[00:03:31]So, think about it this way. If your metabolism is already broken, I'm talking high insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, disregulated cortisol, mitochondrial dysfunction, and you take the most aggressive GLP-1 ever made, what do you think is going to happen?

[00:03:43]The drug doesn't fix what's broken underneath. It just piles more demand on top of a system that's already failing to do its basic job, and it's already stressed. That's what I've been calling the metabolic foundation for years, and it matters more than which medication you take. It is the entire reason the flow protocol exists to stabilize it first before piling on stronger tools.

[00:04:03]I'm telling you, I see this all too often. Patients stalled out near the end max dose of tepatide 10 to 15 milligs.

[00:04:10]And so what do they do? They jump to retatrite. I'm telling you, less than 50% of people that make that jump actually continue to lose weight because the reason that you're stalled most likely is because your metabolism crashed because you've been undereating.

[00:04:21]I don't care how much reat you add or replace. It ain't going to fix that, homie. That's just the way it is. But you didn't know that because whoever sold it to you didn't tell you that.

[00:04:29]Probably because they didn't know. The order matters and what we see work best with patients walking in with severe insulin resistance. There's appetite first. Build the foundation. Address the underlying dysregulation. Then and only then if a tool with more horsepower is warranted or a twoai can enter the conversation. The lie isn't that rea isn't powerful. It is. The lie is that more power equals best, strongest equals right for you. And that logic ignores everything that actually determines whether a GLP-1 is going to deliver.

[00:04:57]Namely, the state of your metabolism going into it. And this is what I see every single week in our clinic. People in the wrong order, people on the wrong medication, people who didn't fail rea.

[00:05:06]They were set up to fail it by an unstable foundation that their prescriber never tested for. Now, if you're in that camp, if you've stalled on tzepide and your prescriber is pushing you to switch to reatride, pause this video right now, please, because there's a conversation that you should have before you change your medication.

[00:05:22]And if you're stalled and you're thinking about RETA, but you've never had anyone evaluate whether or not your metabolic foundation can support it, that's exactly what our free discovery calls our bill for. I got you covered.

[00:05:33]All right, so hear me out. Our patient educators, when you get on that call, they're going to look at where you actually are, what's working, what's broken, and whether is the right next step or whether you'd be set up to fail on it. You guys can text number on the screen or check out the link in the description. That's the conversation that you want to have. Okay, so line number three is the one I can't stand for. It's the one that I'm watching some credential doctors repeat across multiple social media platforms with a straight face. And it's the lie that reatrite is some kind of anti-aging miracle drug just by taking it. So you probably have seen the videos, the claims reachide activates autophagy.

[00:06:05]Reachutide clears out zombie cells.

[00:06:07]Cellular reset rebuilds you from the inside. Let me tell you what reachide really is. It's a triple aagonist. That means it hits three receptors at the same time. Three biological switches that the body uses to store and burn fuel. Now the three are glucagon, GLP1 and GIP. I call it the triple G and kind of a cool name, right? And it's what makes reatride work differently than any other GLP1 before. Now here's real quickly what each one actually does. So GLP1 is the same receptor to zepide as some glutide hit controls appetite, right? Tells your brain, chill out, homie. You don't need to eat more food.

[00:06:39]It's the problem that a lot of us have.

[00:06:41]So you're more full. Slows down your stomach emptying. So the food sits there longer and you don't eat as much. Now GIP the second one this modulates how your body responds to glucose and where it stores fat. And then there's third the glucagon the receptor that didn't have a successfully advanced drug until reachide. That one drives fat immobilization. It tells your body to actually pull the fat out and burn it especially from the liver. It's why the trial results for reachide specifically fatty liver were significantly better than the other two. Three receptors three drops appetite metabolic regulation fat immobilization. And that's what I've been calling the three systems of fat loss. So when you take rea, you are activating three legitimate fat burning pathways simultaneously. And that's real. That is impressive. And that is exactly why it's a more powerful tool than the other GLP ones that came before. I did not say that it reverses your DNA damage. I didn't say that it resets you at a cellular level because none of that was measured in the trials.

[00:07:30]The Jastbuff trial measured body weight, A1C, blood pressure, lipids, standard metabolic endpoints, DNA repair, cellular scinessence, biological age.

[00:07:39]None of that was measured at all. Now that doesn't mean retoutide has zero role in anti-aging. It probably does.

[00:07:45]Stack it into a real protocol, strategic fasting, the right peptides, the lifestyle work that actually drives autophagy and mitochondrial repair that we have more data behind. And those metabolic benefits absolutely compound into real longevity outcomes. And that's where the flow protocol comes in. But that's the stack doing the work, not the reaut just doing it all on its own. So here's the question I want you to sit with out of everything that I just covered. The triple G, the three systems, the gap between what Reachide actually does and what the hype is selling. Which part hit you the hardest?

[00:08:15]Because that's actually the lie that you were carrying without knowing it. And if you want more breakdowns like that, real mechanisms instead of YouTube fairy tale versions, hit that subscribe button now because we put out two GLP1 videos every single week. And it's the difference between getting the actual science and getting whatever the algorithm is feeding you. Okay, so let's get into lie number four because this is the one that wrecks people the most after they've already lost the weight. Lie number four is that once you lose the weight, you can just stop taking red or true tide and you'll be fine. Like it's somehow magically different than any other GLV1.

[00:08:43]You'll keep what you've lost. Maybe a little bit more discipline for a few months, but the hard work is done. Stop the shots, go back to normal, weight stays off. I watch this happen every single week. Stopping red of True Tide isn't the same as stopping any other GLP1. And most people don't see it coming. Here's what actually happens.

[00:08:58]For the year plus that you've been on reatride, your body has been operating in a hormonal environment that the drug created. The glucagon piece, the one that makes reatride different from tzepide and saglutide, was forcing your body to mobilize stored fat constantly, aggressively. That's the whole reason the metabolic effects were so deep. The day that you stop, the fat mobilization signal stops. Cold turkey. Your body goes from actively pulling stored fat out and burning it to store everything that comes in. If you were to switch your diet back to heavy carbohydrates, but maybe it becomes a little bit more skewed the ratio, right? You're not burning as much fat as the main point.

[00:09:32]That's not a slow taper. That's a switch. And then you layer on what a year of weight loss does to your metabolism even without the drug. Lower basil metabolic rate. Your body is more efficient, right? You need fewer calories than you used to. So now your body is no longer mobilizing fat the way that it has for a year. And your metabolism is running slower than it used to. And the only thing managing both was the medication that you just stopped. And that's where the lie really kicks in. Because if you think you can just stop and walk away, you didn't build anything to walk away into the metabolic foundation that has to be there when the drug leaves your system.

[00:10:04]That has to be built while the drug is still in it. That's the gap in every retatite on its own protocol inherently has the foundation work that has to happen during not after. You spend 12 months on rea without fixing your insulin resistance, without building muscle mass, without teaching your body to be metabolically flexible. You stop and the rebound is waiting. That's not the medication failing. That's you failing you. That's the lie failing you.

[00:10:27]But the crulest lie that I've left for last because it has nothing to do with what renet does and everything to do with what you believe it does for you.

[00:10:35]So lie number five is the one quietly destroying your body composition for people who think that they're doing everything right. It's the lie that reach just automatically protects your muscle. That's because it hits the glucagon receptor. Okay? You don't have to worry about muscle loss the way that you would enters and some glutide. Now here's the truth. part of this lie.

[00:10:51]There might be some truth to this, right? Which is why it's so easy to repeat. Compared to tzepatide and some glutide, the early body composition data on rea is looking a little better, a little better marginally. We have the early data plus what we're tracking in our patients. The picture lines up and that edge comes from the glucagon piece likely of the triple G that we just talked about. Glucagon receptors are driving fat mobilization, pulling fuel from fat. So, it's preferring to burn this over this, right? That part's true.

[00:11:16]But here's what gets drowned out by the rest of the noise. That glucagon advantage is not automatic muscle preservation. It is a tilt in the right direction, not a guarantee. If you don't back it up with the things that matter, protein first, resistance training, you will still lose muscle. Maybe less than you did on your appetite, but you're still going to lose. So, let me be specific about what backing it up means.

[00:11:35]One gram of protein per pound of target body weight every day that you're on the drug. Not trying to eat more protein, not high protein snacks here and there.

[00:11:44]One gram per pound of where you're trying to get to. Simple math. If you're trying to weigh 180 lbs, right? Say you're a dude, you know, 6 foot, you need to be eating 180 grams of protein a day. And resistance training, hypertrophy, muscle building style, at least three times a week, heavy enough that the last couple reps feel hard. Not walking, not yoga, not a 20-minute Pelaton bike ride. I have nothing against Pelaton bikes, but you ain't going to build muscle with that. The kind of training that signals your muscles, hey, you need to stay. You ain't going anywhere. That's the standard that we coach to. And anything below it, and that glucagon advantage is not enough to save your body composition. So, I want you to be honest with yourself for a second here. Are you actually hitting one gram per pound of your target body weight? Are you actually lifting hypertrophy style three times a week? Or is it the part that you've been letting kind of slide because the drug was supposed to handle it? Be honest. I'm looking at you. You know, maybe some of you are kicking ass.

[00:12:34]That's fantastic. But I know a lot of you aren't. Okay. So, here's the pattern that we see constantly with reach patients that we start working with.

[00:12:41]People doing everything else right.

[00:12:42]dosing dialed, diet mostly clean, weights coming off, and then they walk in eight months later, but a significant chunk of what they lost was muscle.

[00:12:49]Sometimes pushing a third of their total loss, sometimes more. They can't understand why their face looks older, why their strength has tanked. They didn't fail the drug. They believed the lie. The drug gave them a tilt in the right direction, but they didn't do the work that the tilt still required. And that's the truth about lie number five.

[00:13:05]Rat tides glucagon advantage. It's real automatic muscle preservation. I'm sorry. It's not. Body composition belongs to you, not the medication. And if you've been following along closely and you're realizing that some of these lies were the ones that you were actually believing, that you'd been promised 29% but your foundation never got evaluated, that you were going to stop the drug and just walk away at the muscle piece was going to take care of itself. Then the conversation worth having before you take another shot at Redwide isn't with another YouTube video. It's with someone who's going to look at your specific situation. And that's what our free discovery calls are for. Guys, you can text the number on the screen or check out the link in the description if you want to go connect with one of our patient educators.

[00:13:42]They're going to learn what you've been through, what you've tried, what's worked, what hasn't, and where you are at right now, whether true titerside or some other peptide combo, what you're considering, and where you actually want to end up. And you'll get a feel for how we work, right? Working with me on the foundation piece, working with my coaches, our medical team on the prescribing side, all of us moving in the right direction. and they'll walk you through programs and pricing so that you can actually see what staying out of those five long-term lies actually look like? And one more thing before I let you go. Out of the five lies, which one were you actually believing before you watch this video? Let me know in the comments. I want to see which one has been having the biggest impact. And if you want the full breakdown of the 10 specific mistakes that I see retatrite patients making, the ones that wreck protocols faster, any one of these lies, there's your video right there, homie.

[00:14:27]Check it out. Yes, I called you my homie cuz I think everybody's my homie. We'll see you later.