GLP 1
The 5-Year View: Long-Term GLP-1 Users Tell the Truth
Five years into GLP-1 treatment, the people doing well share one belief: this is chronic disease management, not a diet with an end date.
GLP-1 Medications and Eating Disorders in Recovery: What Providers Recommend
People in eating disorder recovery who also have obesity face a clinical challenge that most GLP-1 prescribing guidance was not designed to address. Standard…
GLP-1 Medications for Caregivers: How to Fit Treatment Into a Demanding Life
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from caring for someone else full-time. The schedule is not yours, the meals often are…
Switching From Maintenance Dose to Active Loss Again: When and Why
Not everyone’s GLP-1 journey ends at a single goal and a steady maintenance dose. For some patients, the maintenance phase reveals that their original…
Metabolic Rate After GLP-1 Weight Loss: Does It Stay the Same?
The question of what happens to metabolism after significant weight loss on GLP-1 medications is one of the more clinically important and least clearly…
GLP-1 Medications for People With Disabilities: Access and Considerations
Weight management for people with physical disabilities is a subject that receives far less clinical attention than it deserves, and the arrival of effective…
GLP-1 Medications and Aging: How Effectiveness Changes After 60
Starting a GLP-1 medication after 60 raises questions that don’t get asked as often as they should. Most of the clinical trial data, the…
GLP-1 Medications and Perimenopause: What Changes and Why
Perimenopause is one of the most metabolically turbulent periods in a woman’s life, and it’s also one where GLP-1 medications are increasingly being prescribed….
GLP-1 Medications for Men Over 40: Testosterone, Metabolism, and Results
Weight loss for men over 40 operates under a different set of biological conditions than it did in your 20s or 30s, and GLP-1…