If your employer's plan excludes anti-obesity medications entirely (common in self-insured plans), your options are: the cash-pay manufacturer programs described above, asking your HR department whether the exclusion can be reconsidered (especially if your employer is large enough to modify the plan), or using the medication under a different indication (for example, Ozempic for type 2 diabetes, if applicable)
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Moreover, many of the treatments available today come with their own set of limitations
When examining the neurotrophic properties of GLP-1 and exenatide on cultured hippocampal neurons and in a rodent model of neurodegeneration, treatment with GLP-1 and exendin-4 was found to prevent and reverse excitotoxic neuronal damage, as measured by increased cholinergic marker activity [96]