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Foundayo: A New Medication for Obesity and Chronic Weight Management with Dr. Becky Andrick

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What If You Could Get the Benefits of a GLP-1 — Without the Needle?

That's exactly the question Foundayo is answering — and it's one that a lot of patients have been waiting to ask. For years, one of the biggest barriers to GLP-1 therapy has been the injections. Not everyone is comfortable with self-injecting, not everyone has the time to manage refrigeration and travel logistics, and not everyone needs the most powerful medication on the market. So when a new oral option enters the picture, it's worth paying close attention. 

In this episode, Dr. Becky Andrick joins the show to break down everything you need to know about this brand-new medication. Dr. Andrick is a fellow of the Obesity Medicine Association, associate clinical professor at Rocky Vista University, founder of the Colorado Obesity Society, and the founder of Weigh to Wellness, a private weight loss practice in Denver. She also happens to be the physician who first inspired our host to pursue obesity medicine — making this conversation as personal as it is clinical. These two experts go way back to residency, back when the entire obesity medicine toolkit was like, basically just phentermine. Watching this field evolve together over the past 14 years gives their conversation a depth and perspective that's hard to find anywhere else.

In this episode, we cover:

  • What makes Foundayo different from every other GLP-1 on the market
  • Who qualifies — and who should stay away from it entirely
  • The side effects you can expect and exactly how to handle them
  • What the clinical trial data actually says about real-world results
  • Why keeping the weight off is the harder battle — and how to win it

No matter where you are in your weight loss journey — whether you're brand new to all of this, already on a medication and wondering what else is out there, or simply trying to make a more informed decision for your health — this conversation was made with you in mind.

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