The hardest part of a ketogenic diet is not the fat or the protein, it is eliminating bread, pasta, rice, sugar, and processed snacks that most people have eaten daily for years
For people with chronic obesity and cardiovascular complications, GLP-1 receptor agonists are preferred to amphetamine-based therapies like phentermine, which can worsen blood pressure, heart rate, anxiety, and insomnia
Every week in my clinic, patients ask me some version of the same question: Ive heard Ozempic helps with weight but could it actually help my arthritis? Its a fair question, and the honest answer is that the science has shifted dramatically over the past three years
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But with list prices of roughly $1,000 a month, public and private payers are struggling to keep up with ballooning demand for GLP-1 weight loss drugs and in some cases are eliminating or restricting their coverage as a result