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Yet a large 2025 study reported that nearly 47% of people with type 2 diabetes stopped taking these medicines within one year

Staying on a maintenance dose long-term has been associated with: Lower blood pressure Improved cholesterol levels Cardiovascular protection Freedom from food noise (constant food thoughts) For some patients at their goal weight, microdosing GLP-1 medication can be a helpful strategy for maintaining results, especially if weight loss continues at standard doses, and may also offer supportive cardiometabolic or inflammatory benefits beyond weight alone

Unsupervised telehealth prescribing of semaglutide without metabolic evaluation, without addressing the hormonal contributors to weight gain, and without structured dose titration produces variable results and misses the clinical opportunity