Dr. Linda Anegawa, a board-certified obesity medicine physician and Noom’s chief of medicine, said that the decision to offer GLP-1 agonists—the class of medicine that includes drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy and has made waves in the weight loss industry— is part of the company’s strategy to treat the disease of obesity.
“We’ve always been interested in chronic disease,” Anegawa said. “We saw weight really as a gateway to…