Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how to safely stop tirzepatide: taper gradually rather than quit cold turkey, stepping down from 10 mg to 7.5 mg over weeks. Studies show no added benefit above 10 mg, and some women find 7.5 mg is the sweet spot. Microdosing, a low ongoing dose, can maintain results and may help with inflammation.
That's something I think we definitely need to talk about is, okay, if you've actually lost the weight, you've hit your goal, or if you really are struggling with side effects and you need to come off of it, what does that look like? Can women just stop it cold turkey or should they come down on their doses?
Yeah, that's a great question. So obviously if you're having such untoward side effects, you may have to stop it abruptly, but that's not ideal. So we'll talk about If a woman really is committed to not being on them, I would first gradually reduce the dose. And hopefully no woman, when it comes to terzepatide, is on more than 10.
Okay.
The studies show no more benefit at 10 than they do anything higher.
Okay.
And maybe even 7.5. So there's that sweet spot. More is not always better. So say they're on 10, coming down to 7.5 for a couple weeks. And everyone's going to be different because you don't all of a sudden want to go from 0 to 360. And, um, and then gradually lowering it. And then you can space out the dosing, and then we can talk about maybe there's an indication to continue at a smaller dose, you know, ongoing. So that is an option for women. We call that microdosing.
Yeah, I, I want to hear about microdosing because I have autoimmune conditions and I hear it's good for inflammation, and we have clients now asking about
