The pilot, BALANCE (Better Approaches to Lifestyle and Nutrition for Comprehensive hEalth), developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), was intended to test broader Medicare coverage of GLP1 medications
If you swallow it too early, the potent medication gets sent to your stomach, where digestive acids can degrade it and significantly reduce its bioavailability and effectiveness
There is no approved prescription pathway
They perform different functions, so "better" depends on your goals
ALL Markers need to be in range, if your lipids are off, steroids are certainly going to make them worse
More than misleading advertising, though, theres a potentially bigger concern at hand: Some online sellers might not be legal compounders at all but counterfeit producers using manufacturers that arent making them in a sterile manner