I Microdosed Ozempic for 4 Months. Here's What Happened.

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This video is NOT medical advice. It is for educational purposes only. GLP-1 medications are prescription drugs with real risks.

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I microdosed Ozempic for 4 months and dropped from 9.5% body fat to 6.7%—without losing muscle. That’s a 30% fat reduction!

In this video I’ll give you:
My exact dosing regimen
My before-and-after body scans
My before-and-after bloodwork
I’ll explain how drugs like Ozempic work - their benefits and dangers and how microdosing affects the risk/reward equation
And whether I’d ever do it again.

GLP-1 stands for Glucagon-Like Peptide-1, and it’s a hormone your body already makes.
When you eat, GLP-1 is released by your intestines, which tells your pancreas to release insulin, and reduces glucagon, lowering blood sugar. And it slows down how fast food leaves your stomach, so you stay full longer

A lesser-known fact is that GLP-1 is also released by neurons in the brain, which dampens appetite centers in the brainstem and hypothalamus, and suppresses dopamine-related motivation and reward centers in the VTA and nucleus accumbens. This natural GLP-1 lasts for a couple minutes.

Drugs like Ozempic don’t contain GLP-1 itself, but mimic it. They bind to the same receptors, but far more strongly and last about 5,000 times as long (a 7 day half-life compared to 2 minutes).

Tirzepatide, the one I used, mimics GLP-1 and another gut hormone called GIP, which may have additional effects on fat metabolism. That dual-action is why tirzepatide often shows slightly stronger metabolic effects in studies.

For the first two months I took a microdose of 0.5 mg of tirzepatide twice a week, usually around dinner time. For reference, a typical therapeutic dose of tirzepatide (for weight loss and diabetes) is between 10mg and 15mg, so I was taking less than 5% of that. In month 3 I took that same dose once per week. Then in month four, I gradually phased it out completely

My body fat percentage went from 9.5% to 6.7%, and my lean muscle mass was virtually unchanged.

To put my results into perspective, on standard “therapeutic” Ozempic (aka semaglutide) doses, on average an entire third of the weight people lose is muscle. Worse, if they stop cold turkey, they’ll usually regain that weight… and that regain tends to skew heavily towards fat, making them worse off than before they went on the medication!

That regain is actually something that microdosing is currently being studied to prevent.
But all that is why if you’re on GLP-1s, even microdosing, it’s essential to be constantly monitoring your body composition - not just the number on the scale.

Studies have repeatedly shown that if you want to start a new habit or break an old one, it takes the average person between 2-3 months of forcing the pattern you want, for the brain to rewire itself… after which the new behavior becomes almost effortless - what science calls “behavioural automaticity”.
The problem is most people don’t have enough willpower to last those 3 months. Myself included when it came to nighttime binges.

GLP-1 microdosing didn’t completely eliminate my cravings like a full dose would, but it turned the craving volume knob from a 10 down to a 4… and I had enough willpower to handle a 4.
So for a couple months I kept winning those battles, during which time my brain slowly rewired itself, until I no longer had the physiological or psychological need for pre-sleep brownies!

This is why there’s excitement around GLP-1 microdosing for other behaviors as well, like alcohol cravings and other addictive patterns. Not because the drug cures anything — but because it gives you a neurological runway long enough for your behavior to stabilize.

An increasing number of GLP-1 patients report “emotional flattening” or numbness. Their food cravings are gone… but so is their craving for everything else! Pleasure. Enjoyment. Motivation. Drive. Ambition. It’s subjective and hard to measure, so we don’t know exactly how common it is. But we know it’s real, not just from patient reports but because we know these synthetic GLP-1s are putting their thumb down on those dopaminergic reward centers in the brain!

Microdosing will drastically decrease the risk of that happening, along with all the other GLP-1 risks and side-effects.

Key Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:28 Disclaimers
1:11 Why I Microdosed a GLP-1
1:48 My Microdosing Regimen
2:31 My Body Scan Results
5:14 The Most Important Success Factor
6:58 How GLP-1s Like Ozempic Work
8:04 Ozempic vs Tirzepatide
8:20 Natural GLP-1 Boosters
8:41 Risks & Side-Effects of GLP-1s
10:02 My Bloodwork Results
10:46 Would I Do It Again?
11:07 Reasons People Microdose

This video is not medical advice. Michael is not a licensed physician.