Clinical psychologist Jade Gooding, CEO of the Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders agrees that GLP-1s can mask and reinforce underlying eating disorder behaviours
About 9% and 6% were on sulfonylureas and GLP-1R agonists, respectively, while less than 5% were on DPP-4 and SGLT2 inhibitors, respectively
Cash-pay members are responsible for both membership fees and full medication costs, which can quickly climb into the hundreds or thousands each month
These include nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, and abdominal pain
Launching an online pharmacy to peddle GLP-1s wasnt the obvious next step for a business that offers paid guidance from experts, but chief executive Andy Kurtzig says the decision was partly driven by advice from ChatGPT and partly by avid customer interest
Some of the commonly used weight loss medications include GLP-1 agonists, phentermine/Topiramate, setmelanotide, orlistat, and naltrexone/bupropion