Mounjaro Diet: What to Eat, What to Avoid, and a Sample Day
Mounjaro diet: what to eat, what to limit, and why it matters on a GLP-1 medicine.
- Active ingredient
- tirzepatide
- Manufacturer
- Eli Lilly
- How it is taken
- Weekly injection
- FDA-approved for
- Type 2 diabetes, Heart risk
Mounjaro in short
Its half-life is about 5 days: after 5 d half is gone, and after five half-lives (25 d) about 3% is left.
SURPASS-1 at 40 weeks showed 7.8 kg lost in type 2 diabetes, compared with 1 kg on placebo.
Monthly prices in US dollars: both the list price and the self-pay offers, each taken from the maker's price page.
Sources: FDA label (DailyMed), healthsystemtracker.org, pricinginfo.lilly.com.