Losing additional muscle during weight loss compounds this risk
Monitoring your weight loss journey also makes it easy for you to know if injection is working
Patients are strongly encouraged to engage with NHS services and evidence-based treatments rather than pursuing unregulated combinations of investigational compounds
And thats why GLP-1s are very confusing, but if you want a patient to be successful on them, you want to make sure youve got the lifestyle, you got the right expectations, you know what the entry point is, what the duration is, and more importantly, what happens when they hit a weight and quote unquote, what is the endpoint of GLP-1s
People who had built up significant anxiety around needles often reported feeling almost silly afterward because the injection was so unremarkable
After a median follow-up of 2 years, the incidence of new or worsening nephropathy in the semaglutide group was lower than that in the placebo group [HR 0.64 (95% CI: 0.460.88, p=0.05)]