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Research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that covering GLP-1s through insurance could raise employer premiums by as much as 14%, even when access was limited to the highest-need patients
And if reading about weight issues is tough for you right now, I completely understand if you want to skip this one
A light breakfast 30 to 60 minutes before or after injection can buffer this effect, but that requires planning your morning around the shot rather than the other way around
In contrast, the longer-acting GLP-1RAs such as liraglutide and semaglutide, engineered for greater resistance to degradation, demonstrate poor penetration into the central nervous system (Salameh et al., 2020)
The first installment, How GLP-1s Are Transforming Modern Menus, provides an overview of how these medications affect users taste