The practical tradeoffs between the two methods come down to time, customization, and cost
Prescription medication can be used as a long-term solution to treat obesity as a chronic disease and break this cycle
People are interested in pills, but still have questions: Before learning more about the treatments, most non-users said they would prefer a tablet over an injection
Bit of Background These new classes of antiobesity medications (ie, the GLP-1 agonists and dual agonists), referred to in this article as weight management medications, arent really new.1-4 The basic science and pharmaceutical research and development to bring these to market began more than two decades ago when two scientists, Matthias Tschop, MD, and Richard DiMarchi, PhD, hypothesized that the actions of various gut hormones may offer safe and unprecedented weight loss