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Some commercial insurance plans do cover Wegovy or Zepbound for weight management, but this varies significantly by plan, employer, and state
It turned out to be possible to go beyond the traditional use of GLP-1 and GLP-1RAs for the treatment of T2DM, metabolic syndrome, and obesity, since these compounds affect the liver, pancreas, brain, fat cells, heart, and gastrointestinal tract [107]
And what was noticed was that if you ingested food or calories of any kind orally through your GI tract versus intravenously, there were very different amounts of that nutrient that would spike in your blood and would be absorbed or not absorbed effectively by the GI tract more effectively