Comprehensive Medical Weight Loss
Weight loss medications, or “Anti-obesity medications,” can not only help you lose weight and keep it off, but can improve your health and your quality of life. There are many categories now – older medications like phentermine and tenuate, and newer ones like Wegovy and Zepbound.
These days, there’s a lot of buzz around the new injectable weight loss medications. Wegovy® and Zepbound™ are making headlines because they help people lose a lot of weight—15% and 20% of body weight, respectively—and they even help with health…
Wegovy: $499 / Month || Zepbound: $499 / Month As both Wegovy (semaglutide) and Zepbound (tirzepatide) are coming out of shortage, both manufacturers announced new options for cash-pay patients to expand access to these new weight loss treatments. If you…
On February 21st, 2025, the FDA declared that semaglutide (Wegovy / Ozempic) is no longer in shortage. This will have significant impact for patients currently being treated with compounded semaglutide. Read on to learn more about this decision, and about…
Phentermine and Tenuate (diethylpropion) were approved by the FDA for weight loss in 1959. Until recently, they were the main medications we used to help patients lose weight and keep it off. Over the past 2 years, it’s tough to…
While tirzepatide (Zepbound / Mounjaro) and semaglutide (Wegovy / Ozempic) are incredibly powerful GLP-1 weight loss medications, recent news reports have highlighted that many people who start treatment discontinue. In this article, I will review 5 tips to improve your…
FDA Approves Zepbound: A New Hope for Sleep Apnea Relief
On Thursday, 12/19/2024, the FDA declared that tirzepatide (Zepbound / Mounjaro) is no longer in shortage. This will have significant impact for patients currently being treated with compounded tirzepatide. Read on to learn more about this decision, and about your…
Tips to Gracefully Bid Farewell to GLP-1 Meds!
It has been an exciting summer for our new GLP-1 weight loss medications, Wegovy (semaglutide) and Zepbound (tirzepatide). This information is current as of 9 Semaglutide At this time, all doses of Wegovy are available at retail pharmacies. Further, all…
Unless you live under a rock, by now you’ve heard of semaglutide – the weekly weight loss injection. But how does semaglutide stack up against the first-ever weight loss medication, phentermine? History of Semaglutide and Phentermine Semaglutide was developed by…
