Each patients experience will be different, and the maintenance dose is decided based on how well the medication is working for them and whether they are experiencing any side effects, says Yusupov
"Even now trying to play a professional sport, it was something that I feel like even I felt like, 'OK, I don't want to do this because it is a shortcut or its is like a quick way out.' "But it actually isn't and there's something that I feel personally that my body was missing in particular after having two kids, I wasn't able to be at a weight that was healthy for me." Williams said she wanted to tell folks of her weight-loss journey to help push back against the stigma that using a GLP-1 is lazy or provides a shortcut
Researchers are keen to explore the possibility, as suggested by the relationship between these medications and improved mental health, that GLP-1 drugs lessen stress responses in human beings
Confusingly, Ozempic has become the byword for the once-weekly shot regardless of which version of the drug they are taking
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