And lastly, GLP-1 medications regulate blood sugar by spiking insulin productionwhich triggers your body to use the food you eat for energy, rather than storing it as fat for later
The drug acts similarly to the bodys own GLP-1 hormone, which is released after eating and triggers insulin release
We know from bariatric surgery data that significant weight loss and altered nutrition absorption can be associated with lower bone density and osteoporosis, says Marilyn Tan, MD, an associate professor of medicine and endocrinologist at Stanford Health Care in California, who was not involved in the study
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Its a much better deal than paying $1,000 per month or more out-of-pocket for name-brand prescriptions that are only sometimes covered by insurance, but, like most good things, those deals come with a pretty big asterisk
That discovery was a breakthrough