Regular check-ins with your healthcare provider are essential to: Monitor progress: Tracking weight, body composition, and health markers like A1C and lipid profiles
Maintaining healthy habits developed during treatment helps minimise regain
Associations of Plasma Trimethylamine N-Oxide, Choline, Carnitine, and Betaine with Inflammatory and Cardiometabolic Risk Biomarkers and the Fecal Microbiome in the Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study
STEP-1: Semaglutide 2,4 mg, the standard since 2021 The STEP-1 trial (Wilding et al., NEJM 2021, PMID 33567185) randomized 1,961 overweight or obese adults (BMI 30 or BMI 27 with comorbidities) without diabetes to semaglutide 2,4 mg/week or placebo, with lifestyle interventions administered concurrently in both arms
Patients commonly report improved tolerance once stable dosing is achieved
It also carries a cardiovascular-event-reduction indication