#semaglutide #obesitymedicine #type2diabetes If you are interested in licensing this animation or creating a new one, visit our website: nmal.nucleusmedicalmedia.com/contact-form?f=misc MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Semaglutide is a medicine used to help control high blood sugar in people who have type 2 diabetes. It may also be used to help people with excess weight or who have obesity to lose weight. For those who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease, this medicine is also approved to help reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, or death. In order to understand how semaglutide works, it's important to know how your body controls blood sugar levels. Your pancreas is an organ that helps control the amount of sugar in your blood called glucose. When your digestive track breaks down foods such as carbohydrates into glucose, it begins to release the glucose into the blood stream. The glucose in your digestive track triggers it to release a chemical called glucagon-like pepti...