Neither form is automatically better for every patient
FDA Approves New Drug Treatment for Chronic Weight Management, First Since 2014
While medications maintain sustained, supraphysiologic hormone levels and typically produce significant weight reduction and HbA1c decreases, food-stimulated GLP-1 is released in brief pulses after meals and rapidly degraded within minutes, resulting in smaller metabolic improvements
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And thats the kind of danger zone that the female athlete triad is all about: when chronic energy deficiency becomes too much and suppresses reproductive function and suppresses the formation of bone. That leads to low estrogen levels too
The FDA's warning emphasizes that semaglutide is contraindicated (should not be used) in patients with a personal history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2 (MEN2)