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The GLP-1 patch was the logical next step in that marketing evolution: take the same ingredients already being sold in capsules, put them in a transdermal patch (a format associated in consumers' minds with legitimate nicotine and hormone therapies), and market them with GLP-1 keywords
These simple acts reduce decision fatigue and build momentum
Efficacy of dulaglutide on vascular health indexes in subjects with type 2 diabetes: a randomized trial
What forms the bulk of the retail price2 of peptides is not the cost of manufacturing, but the capital infrastructure: the regulatory burden, the cold chain logistics, the pen device (which sometimes costs more than the drug itself), and, above all, the return needed to justify $9 billion in the initial R&D of these GLP-1 drugs
And then when you do eat, you are so hungry that you eat too much, too fast, triggering severe nausea and GI distress