Wegovy Foods to Avoid (and Why They Trigger Nausea and Reflux)
Foods to avoid on Wegovy: what to eat, what to limit, and why it matters on a GLP-1 medicine.
- Active ingredient
- semaglutide
- Manufacturer
- Novo Nordisk
- How it is taken
- Weekly injection or daily pill
- FDA-approved for
- Weight loss, Heart risk, MASH liver disease
Wegovy in brief
Its half-life is about 1 week: after 7 d, half is gone, and after five half-lives (35 d) about 3% is left.
In STEP 1 over 68 weeks, 14.9% of body weight was lost, against 2.4% on placebo.
Prices each month, in US dollars: the list price plus self-pay offers, all read from the maker's price page.
Sources: FDA label (DailyMed), healthsystemtracker.org, prnewswire.com 1 2.