At the median, spending on food at home decreased by $10/week and spending on food away from home (e.g., restaurants) decreased by $30/week compared to pre-medication food spending
But once the scale moves, a new question emerges, what happens next
Instead of following the standard titration schedule, where you increase your dose every four weeks until you hit the high maintenance level, microdosers stay at the lowest effective dose for months, or even take less than the starting dose
KFF Health Tracking Poll May 2024: The publics use and views of GLP-1 drugs, Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), 2021
Peripheral orexigenic mechanisms The major gastrointestinal hormone with potent orexigenic properties is ghrelin (12) which has been identified in gastric ghrelin X/A cells characterized by large eletrodense granules of P/D type in man and A-like type in rats (13)