The list price for Wegovy is $1,350 for a 28-day supply, but in March 2025, Novo Nordisk launched a direct-to-patient delivery pharmacy for those taking the medication without insurance coverage, charging $499 a month
Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress further worsen this imbalance by limiting energy production and increasing ROS, leading to cellular damage and heightened insulin resistance
Feltman: Yeah, and GLP-1 is a peptide, right
We have also tried to address this in our rewrite of the therapeutics section found in the second half of the paper.
Key takeaways Ozempic, like all GLP-1s, carries a black box warning on its label due to a possible association between their use and thyroid C-cell tumors, a rare thyroid cancer