Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff… Microdose Ozempic
Source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/some-patients-and-doctors-turn-microdosing-glp-1s-2025a10002y1
You’ve seen a gangster movie before right? You remember the scene where the dealer mixes the blow with baking-soda. Makes it more affordable… more profitable… Yeah? The telemedicine industry seems to have taken a cue from Scarface. Now, microdosing GLP-1 mimetics is the latest trend in weight loss.
In the last two years, GLP-1 mimetics have taken the world by storm. This medication indicated in diabetes induces early-satiety. If you're more full, you eat less… you eat less, you weigh less. Simple.
But let’s say you’re not trying to go full 2003 Kate Moss in record time. Let’s say you want to ride the Ozempic wave but don’t have hundreds of pounds to burn every month.
What can you do…?
Microdosing.
Instead of taking the full, FDA/NICE-approved dose, patients are taking smaller amounts. Just enough to get some of the benefits without the sky-high costs or intense side effects. So like a diet version of a diet drug.
How? Telemedicine clinics and compounding pharmacies. They whip up custom doses that aren’t commercially available.
And it’s catching on fast. Fast in the states, but insidiously in the UK too. Go on r/semaglutide right now. People are posting microdosing success stories, showing off weight maintenance, fewer side effects, and the big selling point: it’s way cheaper.
But obviously there is a catch.
Whilst not illegal, it’s definitely a grey area.
…lack of published research.
…potential contamination risks.
…No FDA and NICE approval.
The jury is out with clinicians as well, whilst some see it as a good way to ease patients into weight loss medication, others condemn it.
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