Published: Jan. 15, 2026 at 11:51\u202fa.m. ET<\/p>\n
Millions of Americans have tried GLP-1s, but some people find that the weight-loss drugs have too many side effects, are expensive or just don\u2019t work for them.<\/p>\n
Patients also have to deal with changes to their health insurance at the start of a new year, and more employers have withdrawn coverage of the pricey medications. About half of the people who stop taking GLP-1s, like Eli Lilly\u2019s LLY<\/a> Zepbound or Novo Nordisk\u2019s NVO<\/a> Wegovy, discover that they gain back all the weight they lost within two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 15, 2026 at 11:51\u202fa.m. ET Millions of Americans have tried GLP-1s, but some people find that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[274],"tags":[143489,82826,18,27036,41579,3334,49758,135,475,19,17,3521,6403,82656,94542,14965,462,69291,143487,143488,2927,2900,7840,87959,9436,44285,26243,5359,642,9384,143490,101159,46210],"class_list":["post-286263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-boston-scientific-corp","tag-bsx","tag-eire","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-glp1","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lifestyle","tag-living","tag-living-lifestyle","tag-lly","tag-manufacturing","tag-medication","tag-mental-fitness","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-adr","tag-nvo","tag-ozempic","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-physical","tag-physical-mental-fitness","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-synd","tag-wegovy","tag-weight-management","tag-weightloss","tag-ww","tag-ww-international-inc","tag-zepbound"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}