Among people who have not taken a GLP-1 drug, about one in five (22%) say they would be interested in taking a GLP-1 drug to lose weight, including 7% who say they would be very interested. Women are more likely than men to say they would be at least somewhat interested in taking these drugs to lose weight (27% v
13 If these proteins keep building up, they can disrupt neural communication and trigger widespread brain cell death
Rachel Suba, RD, CSSD, a Division I collegiate sports dietitian, told me at the conference that her program added a GLP-1 screening question to its standard intake, just to flag potential issues early
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Supervision required : Texas (mandatory physician oversight with prescriptive authority agreements one MD can delegate to max 7 NPs), Pennsylvania (no independent NP practice yet), Florida (limited autonomy for primary care NPs, but psychiatric NPs generally need physician partnership)
Instead of stopping, pulling out, and starting over properly, I told myself it would be fine and pushed the plunger anyway