[exDemMom]

Though these drugs have been used to treat type 2 diabetes for nearly two decades, it wasn’t until 2021 that the FDA approved one of them — Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) — as a treatment for obesity.

Ah, interesting. I keep hearing ads for a clinic that prescribes semaglutide at half the cost of Wegovy. I wondered how they can do that, if they are selling semaglutide and not some "supplement" they claim does the same thing. But I think this answers my question. Since the drugs have been around a long time, they must have lost their patent protection. So now, generics can be sold.

[SoftballMominVA]

Semeglutide at half the cost of Wegovy is probably a compounded version. It would still be as effective but without the patented pen delivery much cheaper