Call your healthcare provider for severe, sudden, or unusual headaches, especially with vision changes, weakness, confusion, chest pain, fainting, persistent vomiting, or signs of dehydration
When you inject a GLP-1 medication like Wegovy (semaglutide) or Mounjaro (tirzepatide), it acts on your brains appetite control centre, making you feel fuller longer and reducing food cravings
Studies have shown that the Wegovy pill is roughly as effective as its injectable counterpart
Competing oral GLP-1 products Multiple pharmaceutical companies are developing oral GLP-1 agonists that may eventually compete with semaglutide
Medications maintain therapeutic drug levels continuously, whereas food-stimulated GLP-1 secretion occurs in pulses after meals and is rapidly degraded
Similarly to GLP-1, GIP exerts several beneficial effects on cells