Prefer working through traditional healthcare channels: If you value in-person doctor relationships, prefer having weight loss medication prescribed by your existing primary care physician, and want your weight management integrated into your overall medical care, pursuing branded medications through traditional channels may be more comfortable than telehealth platforms
Researchers use it to look into how it works in the body, its potential benefits, and how it might help with muscle growth, recovery, and hormonal changes as we age
Whether it remains there as the field evolves is an open question
There are some skin conditions that may improve after starting a GLP-1, like psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa
The quality assurance is pharmacy-level rather than FDA-approval-level, which means the standards can vary more across providers than with brand-name FDA-approved drugs whose manufacturing is directly supervised