How I Approach This With Patients Currently on GLP-1 Medication For patients actively using GLP-1 medications who come to me proactively, before significant skin changes have developed, I focus the conversation on prevention and monitoring rather than correction: supporting skin's structural health through appropriate topical actives, discussing realistic expectations about the pace of weight loss and its relationship to skin's ability to adapt, and establishing a baseline so we can track changes over time rather than only reacting once laxity has become significant
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Nonetheless, these mechanisms have not been consistently replicated in humans, particularly in individuals with severely reduced left ventricular function who may not benefit [72, 73], or may even being harmed [74], from treatment with GLP-1RAs
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After that, the dose should resume as scheduled the following week