RESEARCH & EMERGING TREATMENTS
What Is Retatrutide?
What retatrutide is, why researchers are studying three metabolic hormone pathways, what trial results can and cannot tell us, and why investigational products require caution.
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OBESITY SCIENCE,
MADE USEFUL.
Patient-centered guides built from actual Weight & Measure conversations with researchers, healthcare professionals, advocates and people with lived experience.
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Research & Emerging Treatments
RESEARCH & EMERGING TREATMENTS
How Do GLP-1 Clinical Trials Work?
Understand obesity and GLP-1 clinical trials, eligibility, informed consent, study phases and the questions to ask before volunteering.
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Where Is Obesity Care Going Next?
A forward-looking guide to obesity management medications, retatrutide research and the shift toward cardiometabolic and CKM health rather than “skinny shot” framing.
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GLP-1 & OMMs
GLP-1 & OMMS
What Is Food Noise?
Explore what people mean by food noise, how patient experiences helped make it a research question, and why food noise is not simply another word for hunger.
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What Happens During GLP-1 Maintenance?
Explore maintenance after weight loss, why a plateau can represent stability, and how long-term obesity care may shift from losing weight to maintaining health gains.
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What Does a GLP-1 Weight-Loss Plateau Mean?
A patient-centered look at GLP-1 plateaus, body composition, food noise, expectations and what to review with your care team before assuming treatment failed.
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Nutrition
NUTRITION
What Should You Eat on a GLP-1?
A transcript-based guide to common GLP-1 nutrition questions, including protein, hydration, supplements, food tolerance and avoiding one-size-fits-all rules.
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Advocacy & Stigma
ADVOCACY & STIGMA
What Is Person First Language?
Why “person living with obesity” can matter, how language affects stigma and care, and why respectful language still needs to leave room for individual preference.
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Can You Trust GLP-1 Advice on TikTok?
How social media can help and hurt people seeking information about Wegovy, Zepbound, Ozempic and obesity care, with questions to ask before acting on a post.
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How Can Patients Advocate for Better Obesity Care?
Ways people using OMMs or living after metabolic & bariatric surgery can use lived experience to advocate for themselves and their communities.
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Obesity Care
OBESITY CARE
What Care Should You Get With a GLP-1 or Bariatric Surgery?
What comprehensive obesity care can look like before and during OMM treatment or metabolic & bariatric surgery, and questions patients can ask about their care team.
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Living With Obesity
LIVING WITH OBESITY
Who Defines a Healthy Body?
How culture, identity, family, access and shared decision making can shape obesity care, explored through the experiences of Black women.
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What Happens When Obesity Medicine Gets Personal?
What physicians living with obesity can teach us about stigma, treatment, GLP-1s, metabolic & bariatric surgery and the patient-clinician relationship.
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Access & Coverage
ACCESS & COVERAGE
What Should Older Adults Know About Medicare GLP-1 Coverage?
A transcript-based overview of the Medicare GLP-1 coverage conversation, including access, coverage rules and why patients should verify current benefits.
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These guides translate themes from Weight & Measure conversations. Treatment decisions should be made with your healthcare team.