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Both medications reduce appetite through different mechanisms, and combining them could increase side effects without proportionally better results
Exercising regularly, eating more fiber and drinking lots of water
Available evidence suggests retatrutide may drive substantial fat-mass reduction, and a recent body-composition substudy reported that the proportion of lean-mass loss relative to total weight loss was similar to other obesity treatments