Maintain a Healthy Weight While youre likely already working on weight loss with your GLP-1 medication, know that losing excess weight is one of the best long-term solutions for reducing reflux symptoms
And our current thinking about obesity, and one of the components of the disease of obesity, is that some individuals although they all have GLP-1 and these other gut hormones, amylin, glucagon, GIP, that's what they're called that signal, for some reason, is not getting to the brain in ample amounts to tell the individual to feel full, satiated, and stop eating
Estimates suggest that if Medicare were to cover Ozempic for weight loss, it could cost the program $14 billion to $27 billion per year, or about 3% of Medicares 2022 spending
This is significantly higher than standard recommendations and often requires protein supplementation to achieve