Taking a GLP-1? Doctors Say Not to Forget About Movement and Mental Health

Taking a GLP-1? Doctors Say Not To Forget About Movement and Mental Health

Taking a GLP-1? Doctors say don’t forget to move your body and tend to your mental health, too. Severe ankle pain drove Jelon Smart to start taking a weight loss injection a year and a half ago. Smart was 285 pounds and worked as a caterer in Savannah, Georgia. After she’d been standing on her feet for long hours, her ankles would be “as swollen as a football,” she said. She was walking with a limp. An orthopedic doctor diagnosed her with Achill…