Wellness coach Rachael Sacerdoti shares her advice for women in midlife coming off Ozempic, Mounjaro and other weight loss injections

Patients on the new pill also lost weight — up to 16 pounds without reaching a plateau at the study’s end. Side effects were the same as those with the injectable obesity drugs.

But this one, for Lilly’s first diabetes and weight-loss pill based on the GLP-1 hormone, was particularly fraught. Days before, rival pharma giant Pfizer had announced it was abandoning its oral weight-loss drug after worrying side effects involving liver problems were reported in one participant in the trial.