If you have dehydration, vomiting, surgery, acute infection, or reduced food intake, ask your clinician whether medication-specific precautions apply
Beyond marketing claims, the news underscores the agency's commitment to protecting the drug supply from poor-quality materials
Bone turnover markers, plasma type 1 collagen cross-linked C-telopeptide (P-CTX), and plasma propeptide of type 1 procollagen (P-P1NP) were assessed from fasting blood samples
While the medications themselves don't directly cause fluid loss, their effects on appetite, nausea, and digestion can lead to inadequate water intake and electrolyte imbalances that compound dehydration risk
Preprocessing included trimming to relevant kinetic phases (association and dissociation), correcting for signal jumps at buffer transitions, aligning phases, and subtracting signals from both baseline and reference channels
However, recent FDA decisions have removed these medications from the list of substances eligible for compounding, meaning that compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide are no longer generally available