Intermittent fasting is a health and wellness approach where you set windows for reducing your calorie intake, usually only drinking water, and then eat normally outside of them
Several circumstances require immediate disposal of your GLP-1 pen, regardless of how much medication remains
Saxenda specifically licensed for weight management) [2] [5] Dulaglutide (Trulicity for diabetes only) Exenatide (Byetta, Bydureon for diabetes only) Oral semaglutide (Rybelsus for diabetes only) These medications are administered via subcutaneous injection (except Rybelsus), with dosing frequencies ranging from daily to weekly depending on the specific formulation
A 2026 narrative review in Clinical Obesity by Urbina and colleagues, which pooled six studies covering 480,825 adults, found that more than 60% of GLP-1 users consumed below estimated requirements for calcium and iron, and that average vitamin D intake landed at just 20% of recommendations (PubMed: 41549912)
They are signals of a system under stress