Hims & Hers Launches Weight Loss Category With Future GLP-1 Plans

Hims & Hers Well being is now within the weight reduction enterprise.

The telemedicine firm introduced on Monday that it’s going to provide prescriptions for crave-curbing medicine out there on each its Hims and Hers websites. Whereas not included within the preliminary rollout, Ozempic’s GLP-1 class of medicine are a part of future enlargement plans for its new class.

Medicine out there to qualifying sufferers embody anti-diabetes remedy Metformin, antidepressant Bupropion, opiate antagonist Naltrexone and anticonvulsant remedy Topiramate, all of that are used off-label for weight reduction. After an internet evaluation, clients that qualify are supplied considered one of 5 remedy kits that includes totally different mixtures of the medicine together with a vitamin B12 complement. Along with top, weight and medical particulars, customers are additionally assessed primarily based on sleep, stress and consuming habits.

Hims & Hers employed Dr. Craig Primack, who specialises in weight problems, as its SVP of weight administration, who will oversee the brand new class.

Along with prescriptions, Hims & Hers is offering personalised diet steerage, recipes, psychological well being help, motion suggestions and sleep recommendation in addition to digital monitoring instruments for progress, hydration, motion and sleep.

Within the firm’s August second-quarter earnings name, CEO Andrew Dudum said that the corporate is at the moment holding off on GLP-1 medicine, which embody Ozempic and Wegovy, till the provision chain turns into extra constant and the drugs undergoes extra research.

”The truth is that the medicines are solely 9 to 12 months outdated and have solely been studied for that length,” he mentioned.

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