WIRED also reached out to a number of other telehealth companies offering oral semaglutide and tirzepatide, looking for more information about how they source these medications and what clinical evidence they use to back up assertions of efficacy, including Strut, Henry Meds, Willow, Zealthy, and Ivy RX, none of which responded to repeated requests for comment
It's called LEAN-PREP, a randomized controlled trial testing resistance exercise and protein intake in people starting semaglutide or tirzepatide, and as of this writing it's still recruiting
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Discontinuation due to adverse events was 4.3-7.1% across tirzepatide doses versus 2.6% placebo
The first author of the paper, Dr Kathrine Hviid, a PhD student in the same department, said: We made some extremely important findings that have implications for future studies, such as randomized controlled trials of GLP-1 RA usage in pregnancy, and for clinical counseling