How metabolic surgery and GLP-1 medications can work together Despite the drawbacks of GLP-1 agonists, they can still be a powerful tool for weight loss when used together with metabolic surgery at the discretion of your physician
Total time from enrollment to receiving medication is typically 5-10 business days, with some variation based on provider, pharmacy location, and shipping distance
It is important to remember that weight loss is rarely linear
STEP-1: Semaglutide 2,4 mg, the standard since 2021 The STEP-1 trial (Wilding et al., NEJM 2021, PMID 33567185) randomized 1,961 overweight or obese adults (BMI 30 or BMI 27 with comorbidities) without diabetes to semaglutide 2,4 mg/week or placebo, with lifestyle interventions administered concurrently in both arms