Fakes are on the rise," Dani Blum, The New York Times, July 2024 "The fervor around weight-loss medicines and shortage in availability to fill has created unique loopholes for bad actors like counterfeiters and less reputable compounding pharmacies to exploit." Board member Dr Kenneth McCall's op-ed, "Fake, unsafe weight-loss drugs are a worsening public health dilemma," in The Hill, August 2024 "The second problem we're seeing is poorly compounded medications distributed through incredibly unsafe sources like Etsy, of all places...and who knows what in them
Continuous glucose monitors provide even richer data if accessible, showing the full glucose curve throughout the day rather than single-point snapshots
According to the FDA, patients can lose 20% of their weight when administered the Semaglutide injection
This difference is more important than it looks
The medication works by stimulating insulin secretion, suppressing glucagon release, and slowing gastric emptying in a glucose-dependent manner
We do not have clinical data evaluating the effect of Wegovy or Ozempic on sagging skin on the buttocks