Most people who feared injections report that the actual experience is far easier than expected
We always recommend cleaning the site with an alcohol swab before administration
A better goal is to reduce excess fat while preserving muscle, strength, energy, and metabolic health
As a class of drugs, GLP-1s have been shown to result in weight loss.[2] Common side effects of GLP-1s include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, injection site reactions, headache, hypoglycemia, dyspepsia, fatigue, dizziness, abdominal pain, and gastroenteritis.[1-4] All GLP-1s carry a boxed warning for the risk of thyroid c-cell tumors and a contraindication for a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2
Interest in the drugs has expanded beyond metabolic disease as researchers have begun exploring their broader biological effects