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Patients also have to deal with changes to their health insurance at the start of a new year, and more employers have withdrawn coverage of the pricey medications.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":417092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,20356,220021,100752,31351,482,56184,137,5266,1625,3322,175317,220018,22530,490,125810,220019,220020,7716,4334,40011,175426,21298,31345,31350,20165,12728,60877,220022,163077,24242],"class_list":["post-417091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-scientific-corp","tag-bsx","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-glp1","tag-health","tag-health-care","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}