Their endorsement carries a kind of peer trust that pharmaceutical companies simply cannot replicate
Participants taking Wegovy more frequently reported: nausea diarrhea constipation vomiting The trial also revealed compelling secondary benefits, with improvements in key comorbidities, including: type 2 diabetes obesity cardiovascular risk markers Most notably, people taking Wegovy lost significantly more weight than those receiving a placebo an average of 10% of body weight compared to just 2%
Which is why the sellers are the primary villains here they collect all the upside while offloading every ounce of risk onto the person holding the syringe
From a mechanistic standpoint, their actions are not mutually exclusive
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Drops Wegovy and Others Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBS MI), the states largest nonprofit insurer covering over 4.5 million members, recently announced it will stop covering three major GLP-1 medications Wegovy , Zepbound , and Saxenda for fully insured large groups, effective January 2025
