Sydney Lepkin

I mean, yeah, sure, they do.

Because when we take those drugs, we pay for those drugs.

But also, I mean, as someone who's talked to hundreds of patients who have taken both brand name and compounded GLP-1s, like, they want to be taking them.

You know, I've I've talked to people who have said, you know, I have struggled to lose weight my entire life and this changed my life.

And like, you know, there's we can talk about stigma and whatnot, which is not gone yet.

But, you know, they'll say, like, this is a tool and it's really helped me.

Mm hmm.

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Are these companies legit?

What's going on with that?

That is a great question.

I think I'm going to back into this answer and tell you that, you know, when we're seeing these competitor GLP-1s, the assumption, because this is the way things have always been, is that they're offering generic drugs.

And that's actually not what's happening here.

Basically, this is not a generic.

This is what is called a compounded drug, which means that the drug is made instead of in a manufacturing drug company's facility by a drug company going through FDA approval.

It is made by a special kind of pharmacist, a compounding pharmacist.

Their sort of bread and butter is that they make custom drugs for people that need them.

So the example is like, okay, you need a pill, but the brand name commercial version has a preservative in it that you're actually allergic to, but you still need that pill.

So you would go to a compounding pharmacist and then they would...