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Consider adding some aerobic exercise as well, as its great for overall health, but resistance exercise is king for muscle preservation
In conventional medicine, thyroid blocking medications would be used
Saxagliptin and its major metabolite can be removed by hemodialysis (23% of dose over 4 hours)
Malhotra, MD, a functional medicine doctor and weight-loss specialist in a suburb of Chicago, confirmed that she has seen myriad health improvements in patients taking GLP-1s particularly those with diabetes who were "very sick." "We observed that this sick population was doing better than the diabetics who were on other diabetes medicines," she shared with Fox News Digital, noting that she observed improvements in brain health, memory, heart health, circulation, and liver and kidney function
Concomitantly, muscle mass is more likely preserved during intentional weight loss, but is reduced during unintentional weight loss [50]