2025, the federal government announced a new voluntary program allowing state Medicaid agencies to cover GLP-1 medications for weight management
Some patients transition to lower doses or extended-interval dosing (every 1014 days instead of weekly) to maintain partial appetite suppression while reducing cost or side effects
As a result, your liver processes more cholesterol and secretes it into your bile
The peptide appears to influence slow-wave sleep (SWS) promotion while simultaneously modulating hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity and reducing stress hormone levels
If you tighten glycemic control very tightly very quickly, you can have a paradoxical effect where actually the eye disease gets worse for a period of time. In other words, rather than being a secondary effect of the drug, the worsening of DR and maybe NAION could be secondary to what the drug does in the body
Before you imagine floating up Alpe d'Huez thanks to a weekly injection, let's pump the brakes and look beyond the hype