Dr. Mary Claire Haver
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Yeah.
We use them in clinic.
We have them.
Yes.
We prescribe them.
Muscle mass.
It's a double-edged sword, right?
When we have patients come in in clinic, no wing.
that if they're given indiscriminately incorrectly without proper counseling, you are putting her at risk for future osteoporosis and frailty and sarcopenia, low muscle mass.
So before we'll prescribe a GLP-1.
So usually in their first visit, they have an hour visit, all about menopause.
We go through everything.
Then after three months, they come back and we do all the lifestyle changes on the front end.
And then we see if they're still a candidate for a GLP-1.
We have another hour of counseling to go through all the potential side effects and the long-term consequences, if not done properly.
So I had a guest on the podcast, Rocio Salas-Whalen, who wrote Weightless, and it's available in the UK.
So she has a GPS prescription she gives to her patient, which is the GLP-1, the protein intake and strength training, GPS.
And you have to do all three.
And she and I both monitor muscle mass individually.
and visceral fat in clinic with the in-body machine.