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Noom Expands Into Digital Fitness to Fight Muscle Loss From Obesity Drugs
Members of Noom’s program will receive access to exercise videos designed by obesity specialists along with educational materials geared towards minimizing muscle loss.
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Noom Inc., a company that makes apps to aid weight loss, is expanding into online fitness to address the decline of muscle mass seen in some patients taking popular new obesity treatments.
Noom has teamed up with online-fitness company FitOn Inc. to add “Muscle Defense,” a program aimed at helping patients keep muscle as they shed pounds using GLP-1 drugs, the company said Friday in a statement.