Can Ozempic and Trulicity Customers Ever Give up?

I discovered a brand new phrase immediately: deprescription. It apparently refers back to the act of stopping a prescribed drug.

There’s a category of kind 2 diabetes medication known as GLP-1 receptor agonists. Well-liked examples are Ozempic and Trulicity. They assist customers to lose extra weight. However there’s concern about long-term drug negative effects regain of misplaced weight when the drug is stopped. So do profitable customers have to take the drug lifelong?

A research printed earlier this yr in Diabetes Remedy means that profitable customers of GLP-1 receptor agonists can cease the drug with out weight regain and with out lack of diabetes management if additionally they adhere to a really carbohydrate restricted weight loss program. How a lot carb restriction? Beneath 30 grams/day, at the very least at first. That’s going to be ketogenic in most people. Though I don’t recall seeing “ketogenic” within the research at hand.

Steve Parker, M.D.