A good candidate is someone who has tried diet and exercise without lasting success and is willing to pair medication with lifestyle changes
Sugar, after all, has been linked to a number of health issues, but going cold turkey on the sweet stuff can be difficult
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Tuttle, MD, FASN, FACP, FNKF, executive director for research at Providence Health Care and professor of medicine in the nephrology division at the Institute of Translational Health Sciences at the University of Washington, wrote that the novel concept of combining a glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide with a GLP-1 receptor agonist takes incretin therapeutic agents to a new level. In principle, treatment with a glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and a GLP-1 receptor agonist together would augment glucose lowering while providing defense against hypoglycemia, Tuttle wrote
Walter adds that these conversations matter because the GLP-1 landscape is evolving fast from clinical obesity treatment to more nuanced, personalized wellness strategies
1 Wegovy is a subcutaneous injection given once a week, on the same day each week