Weekly injections instead of daily
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hasnt approved any weight loss patches that work like the blockbuster injected GLP-1 drugs Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, and Mounjaro, says Jody Dushay, MD, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston
Petersen N, Reimann F, van Es JH, van den Berg BM, Kroone C, Pais R, et al
Emerging roles of oxyntomodulin-based glucagon-like peptide-1/glucagon co-agonist analogs in diabetes and obesity
GLP-1, or glucagon-like peptide-1, is a naturally occurring hormone produced in the gastrointestinal tract in response to food intake
Activation of GLP-1 signaling in the brain is mostly triggered by its peripheral release