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> With every weight loss intervention when you stop you gain back the weight. GLP-1 agonists don't seem to be any different than another other intervention.

Except for one thing: it's fairly easy to not stop a drug. You just... keep taking it. Long-term use of these drugs for maintenance purposes looks entirely feasible. Not quite as easy to maintain as a gastric bypass, but close enough to be a big deal.

The same isn't true for exercise and diet; it's very easy to fall off those wagons.



Does this mean if an obese person took this drug for 2-5 years, changed their diet to eat less, they’d keep it off?


That's something we don't know for certain yet.




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