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At Wellness Resorts, Ozempic Becomes Part of the Menu

GLP-1s could have wiped out weight-loss retreats. Instead, they’re reinvigorating them.
Mountain Trek Health Reset Retreat in Ainsworth Hot Springs, British Columbia.
Mountain Trek Health Reset Retreat in Ainsworth Hot Springs, British Columbia. (Courtesy)
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Back in 2021, when the world was baking sourdough bread and hoarding toilet paper, Movara was riding a pandemic high. The fitness and weight-loss resort in the red rocks of Ivins, Utah, was packed, sold out for 18 weeks straight. It wasn’t alone. Hilton Head Health, another such resort in South Carolina, similarly had a six- to eight-week waitlist. So did Skyterra Wellness Retreat in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. The dog days of lockdowns, it turns out, were a boom time for many destination spas.

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