“If you can’t wait to lose some weight, the rising popularity of GLP-1 medications may bring you the results you’re looking for faster than you ever imagined,” says Dr. Sue Decotiis, MD who is a triple board-certified weight loss specialist and owner of her own medical weight loss practice in NYC with a virtual office in Scarsdale.
Glucagon-Like Peptides, also known as GLP-1, are a category of drugs that occur in the gut and also cycle back to the brain responsible for controlling appetite and the way insulin works that were originally approved by the FDA to treat Type 2 Diabetes with commercial drugs like Mounjoro and Ozempic. “It was later realized that these medications cause tremendous weight loss, so the drug companies including Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly said, ‘let’s call these drugs something else and get it approved for weight loss,’ and that’s how they came up with Wegovy (Novo Nordisk) and Zetbound (Lilly),” Dr. Decotiis shares.
