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Results continue accumulating through week 48 in clinical trial data

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On Saturday, the company released a statement saying: "Since launching the compounded semaglutide pill on our platform, weve had constructive conversations with stakeholders across the industry." "As a result, we have decided to stop offering access to this treatment." The decision comes after the FDA said that it plans to restrict GLP-1 ingredients used in compounded drugs

Bottom Line A smaller appetite on a GLP-1 medication does not mean you have to settle for poor nutrition

Before the company applied to the FDA for the drug to be approved for obesity, Knudsen and her colleagues 'developed a new methodology to show how [GLP-1] drugs exert their effect on the brain by working on the circumventricular organs and communicating further into the hypothalamus, among other effects.' This was designed to illustrate how GLP-1 worked in 'well- defined neurons in the hypothalamus, in the hindbrain, and in the reward centers.' Their rationale for developing the method was because 'It was very important to show that these medicines work on defined brain circuits and not ones that may be related to psychiatric or cardiovascular side effects, for example' (Nair