Injections meant to treat type 2 diabetes have been found to help people lose weight — now, TikTok has become a place of discussion and potential misinformation
“Nothing is permanent,” says Dr. Azza Halim, an anesthesiologist and physician with expertise in aesthetic medicine, anti-aging, and regenerative medicine who aslo does not work with Wade or April. Dr. Halim has prescribed semaglutides for weight loss purposes to patients at her practice. “I tell my patients there is no magic pill. You still have to do the effort. All the studies have shown that once you do stop the semaglutide, people regain up to two-thirds of the weight they lost. Unless you do behavior modification, you will regain some of that weight.”