It is entirely valid to feel overwhelmed when your body no longer responds the way it used to, and when standard medical tests fail to capture the profound cellular exhaustion you experience every single day
Kenneth Morford, an addiction medicine physician and assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, told me, If a patient qualifies for a medication like semaglutide and happens to have a substance use disorder with no contraindication to the medication, we have nothing to lose
Timing risk exists around that cliff
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