less research for telogen effluvium specifically, but biological plausibility is strong
they can also cut the severity of sleep apnea and peripheral artery disease
The negative effects seem minimal. Babak Firoozi, MD MNT also spoke with Seth Kipnis, MD, FACS, FASMBS, medical director of Bariatric and Robotic Surgery at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center in New Jersey, about this research
For someone weighing 150 pounds (68 kilograms), that equals 68 to 81.6 grams of protein daily
That's on the heels of a paper from 2024, which found that postmenopausal women taking semaglutide (the active drug in Wegovy and Ozempic) and hormone therapy lost more weight than those not on hormone therapy, although both groups had improvements in their cholesterol and blood pressure
The shorter half life requires daily administration but allows for relatively quick dose adjustments when needed