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Both perspectives have merit depending on your goals, your response to the medication, and your ability to sustain behavioral changes
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The STEP clinical trial program showed that participants achieved 1015% body weight reduction over 68 weeks, accompanied by improvements in cardiometabolic risk factors
The result: a medication built on the same active pharmaceutical ingredient - semaglutide - but operating in a completely different regulatory category