Tirzepatide joins a similar medication called semaglutide that was also initially developed for diabetes treatment under the name Ozempic and has since been approved to treat obesity under the name Wegovy
This not only allows you to manage your health on semaglutide, but it also helps you optimize and thrive, leading to long-term sustainable results
Effect of Cls and Cls + Gw on histopathology of the gastric mucosa Figure 4 illustrates the gastric mucosa histopathological alterations for each research group
If you have type 2 diabetes in addition to obesity, your provider may choose a medication with strong glucose-lowering data
Britta Reierson , MD, FAAFP, a board-certified family physician and obesity medicine specialist at knownwell, a metabolic health company , cites a national Michigan Medicine survey that shows that up to 60,000 young adults are using GLP-1s on a regular basis, compared to 8,700 a month in 2020