Letter: Compound weight-loss drugs should be regulated by FDA

Letter: Compound weight-loss drugs should be regulated by FDA

If you knew a medicine wasn’t regulated or reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, would you still be willing to take it? My guess is that most people wouldn’t willingly put an unknown pharmaceutical drug with untested ingredients into their body. Yet that is exactly what is happening with the compound GLP-1 drug craze. As the weight-loss and weight management benefits of GLP-1 drugs became well-known, demand for the products skyrocke…