Wegovy is a prescription medication that is used to help adults with obesity or those who are overweight lose weight and keep it off
You will either stay on the same dose or your dose will increase to 1mg once a week if your blood sugar levels arent being managed well enough at 0.5mg
And drug development, for all the careful research required, does sometimes come down to luck
Ibrahim WW, Skalicka-Woniak K, Budzyska B, El Sayed NS (2023) NLRP3 inflammasome inhibition and M1-to-M2 microglial polarization shifting via scoparone-inhibited TLR4 axis in ovariectomy/D-galactose Alzheimers disease rat model
But it does come with considerations worth thinking through
Our findings offer comprehensive real-world evidence for the cardiovascular effectiveness of tirzepatide in clinical practice in the absence of studies with direct comparisons to semaglutide, and ahead of further evidence from the SURPASS-CVOT randomized controlled trial that compared tirzepatide against an older GLP-1 receptor agonist that is not frequently used in routine care 14,17