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If treatment is recommended, the provider may discuss prescription options, medication availability, insurance coverage, prior authorization requirements, self-pay programs, expected costs, and ongoing follow-up care
Ozempic runs $800 to over $1,000 per month
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The review suggests that exploring natural products more thoroughly could lead to more effective and safer obesity treatments by harnessing these diverse mechanisms [28, 50]
effectively uh basically buying them sort of off the shelf and illegally per se through online sources well what's the issue with that well according to a twenty twenty four study the actual purity of some of these compounds is anywhere from 7.7 to 14.3 percent in this sample from this this study uh that's definitely concerning because you can see that if you're not getting the right dose you could have adverse effects or you may try to take more right well the other other issues patients have tried other medications like say or excuse me supplements like berberine we talked about this in our second video berberine helps with the insulin response it can help a lower blood sugar some people say it's sort of like the natural glp but it really isn't it acts on a different completely different pathway and so what patients sometimes will do is double up they'll they'll have berberine or this gray market glp or the gray market glp is just berberine right and so they don't really know what they're getting and that's the issue with not having that regulation and and inspection so what does this mean well poison control calls over the last several years are up over one thousand percent uh related to complications from GLP, particularly injections and mixing
