Ladies’s telehealth firm Wisp and meals as drugs platform Nourish have launched a partnership to assist sufferers taking GLP-1s, the businesses introduced Wednesday. Wisp sufferers can now entry diet counseling assist via Nourish.
New York Metropolis-based Wisp presents therapies for various sexual and reproductive well being wants, together with contraception, sexually transmitted illnesses and hormonal well being. In October, it launched a weight care program that provides prescriptions for Semaglutide (branded FDA-approved Wegovy) Subcutaneous Injectable Remedy, Compounded Semaglutide Subcutaneous Injectable Remedy, Compounded Sublingual Semaglutide, and Metabolic Assist and GLP-1 Enhance Capsules. This system is at the moment obtainable in 23 states with plans to increase nationwide in early 2025.
By means of the brand new partnership, Wisp sufferers enrolled within the weight care program can entry diet counseling companies with Nourish via their medical health insurance or an unique self-pay fee. The sufferers are matched with a registered dietitian, and obtain a personalised care plan, teaching, suggestions and progress monitoring.
On the flip facet, Nourish sufferers obtain a reduction on prescription and over-the-counter merchandise from Wisp.
“Ladies are now not focused on one-size-fits-all care,” mentioned Monica Cepak, CEO of Wisp, in an electronic mail. “They’re in search of revolutionary options which can be tailor-made to their particular person healthcare wants. Ladies who’re navigating their weight need quite a lot of instruments and assets — so we’re offering them with that by providing customized diet teaching, dietary supplements, and efficient weight-loss prescriptions for each lady at each worth level.”
Specialists suggest that GLP-1 drugs be mixed with life-style adjustments to be able to obtain long-term outcomes and stop weight regain as soon as off the drugs. This features a nutritious diet and elevated bodily exercise.
“Customized diet is a crucial piece of the puzzle for sustainable weight care, particularly for sufferers utilizing GLP-1 drugs. Correct steerage from a registered dietitian might help sufferers optimize their diet, handle unintended effects, and obtain lasting well being enhancements,” mentioned Aidan Dewar, co-founder and CEO of Nourish, in a press release. “This partnership with Wisp permits us to mix our experience in meals as drugs with their revolutionary weight care program, empowering girls to take a holistic method to their well being and wellness.”
Cepak famous that there isn’t any shared income within the partnership and that the collaboration is extra of a “buyer acquisition play” by providing unique reductions to one another’s clients. The corporate declined to say what the reductions are, nevertheless.
Wisp and Nourish aren’t the one corporations providing entry to weight reduction drugs and diet assist, although many are providing it below one roof slightly than via partnership. These corporations embody WeightWatchers, Noom and Discovered.
Along with the partnership with Nourish, Wisp additionally introduced that it has appointed Dr. Rowena Chua, a board-certified doctor in neurology and integrative drugs, as director of girls’s weight care on the firm.
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