The commercial describes Hims life-changing weight loss medications as affordable, doctor trusted, and formulated in the USAthough its use of the oblique term formulated, rather than manufactured or made, raises questions about where its active pharmaceutical ingredient, semaglutide, is sourced, particularly because Novo Nordisk has made clear it does not sell its API to anyone else and there is evidence compounders have been sourcing API from uninspected or unregistered foreign facilities
Lancet 330(8571):13001304 Kushner RF, Calanna S, Davies M, Dicker D, Garvey WT, Goldman B et al (2020) Semaglutide 2.4 mg for the treatment of obesity: key elements of the STEP trials 1 to 5
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In combination with healthy lifestyle choices, Ozempic offers an additional layer of aid for those struggling to shed their unwanted weight
Shimyn Slomovic, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow on Collins team