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Why experts believe weight loss jabs may not be worth the cost
Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Weight-loss injections, like Wegovy and Mounjaro, have been hailed as gamechangers. In clinical trials, people lost an average of 15%-20% of their body weight – results that seemed almost miraculous compared to traditional diet and exercise programmes. Today, one in 50 people in the UK are using these treatments. Most of them – around 90% – are paying privately, at a cost of £120-£250 per month. But there’s a catch: more than half of people stop taking the drugs within a year, with cost being the main reason. Our latest research reveals what happens next, and it’s sobering. On average, in clinical trials, people regain all the weight they lost within just 18 months of stopping the medication. That’s surprisingly quick – almost four times faster than the weight regain seen …
This is what happens to your body when you come off weight-loss jabs
Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter A prevalent need for long-term support for people who are taking weight-loss jabs has been recommended after a study found participants experienced rapid weight re-gain after stopping treatment. The University of Oxford research, published in the British Medical Journal, included 37 trials involving more than 9,000 people who took medications such as semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro). Participants were treated for an average of 10 months and had an average follow-up of eight months. Overall, people using weight-loss medication lost an average of 8.3kg, but regained 4.8kg within a year and returned to their original weight within about 1.7 years after stopping treatment. The study also found that health benefits such as improved blood sugar and cholesterol levels faded after treatment ended, with all cardiometabolic markers returning to baseline within about …