Nutritional Deficiencies & Hormonal Shifts If you are experiencing rapid weight loss, it can sometimes cause nutritional deficiencies, including: Protein Iron Zinc Biotin Vitamin D Our hair is a non-essential tissue, so when our body detects that the resources are limited, it will prioritise the vital organs instead
They may be useful in a specific group of patients: Endometriosis + overweight/obesity Metabolic problems (insulin resistance, fatty liver, sleep apnoea, high blood pressure) Planning major surgery or IVF In such cases, GLP-1 injections can: Help weight loss Lower anaesthetic and surgical risk Improve metabolic health before fertility treatment Even here, they are an add-on , not a replacement for proper endometriosis care (excision surgery when needed, hormonal treatment, physiotherapy, pain management)
Our medical team will assist you in choosing the option that aligns best with your individual needs, metabolism, and weight loss objectives
As only one patient with IIH-WOP was treated with a GLP-1-RA, this was insufficient to conduct subgroup analyses, so we could only perform sensitivity analyses removing IIH-WOP patients to exclude potential confounding effect on our results
These medicines help with weight management by slowing down the rate at which food leaves the stomach, a process called delayed gastric emptying
Regarding pharmacotherapy, Dutch standards recommend a stepwise introduction of treatments based on glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), starting with metformin then sequentially adding sulphonylureas, followed by the addition of insulin or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) or dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors as required to achieve and maintain glycaemic targets [9]