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After the FDA declared GLP-1 shortages resolved in early 2025 and began cracking down on compounding pharmacies, Ro and Hims & Hers shifted to partnering with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk's direct-to-consumer cash-pay pharmacies, LillyDirect (launched January 2024) and NovoCare (launched March 2025), that the manufacturers had built to bypass insurance and PBM channels and capture the unprecedented consumer demand around by GLP-1s, for which ~60% of patients are denied coverage by their insurers

They reduce the release of cytokines like IL-1, IL-6, and TNF, upregulate the anti-inflammatory cytokine TGF-, and downregulate the expression of disease-associated microglial (DAM) genes, ultimately enhancing A clearance [74]