Reintroduce normal foods gradually once your symptoms improve, typically after 8-12 weeks
For patients over 40 who are already losing muscle through natural aging, this matters
SDC-1, syndecan-1
Daily sunscreen use helps manage hormone-triggered pigmentation, and treatments like niacinamide or azelaic acid can lighten melasma
The STEP trials demonstrated that semaglutide produces sustained weight loss of 15-22% of initial body weight over 68 weeks, significantly exceeding results from traditional non-GLP-1 medications
However, RCTs utilize varying restrictive inclusion (e.g., age, disease severity) and exclusion (e.g., comorbidities, concomitant medications) criteria, leading to variabilities between patients in RCTs and those in the real world