Most experts recommend waiting six months to one year after reaching your goal weight
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But its not expected to get FDA approval until 2027, she said
It is not intended for human consumption, medical use, diagnostic use, therapeutic use, weight-loss use, appetite-control use, glucose-management use, diabetes treatment use, obesity treatment use, supplement use, injection use, or the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of any disease
They were first developed to treat type 2 diabetes, but millions of people now use them for weight loss, too
The glucagon component increases energy expenditure and fat oxidation, a mechanism unique to retatrutide that semaglutide (GLP-1 only) and tirzepatide (GLP-1/GIP) lack