At the moment, Big Pharma has achieved what looks like a knockout punch
The study found that surgery after GLP-1 treatment was associated with significant additional weight loss, supporting the idea that medication and surgery may be used as part of a staged treatment pathway
This is why a careful physician takes a thyroid history before prescribing, rather than after
A case report published in JAAD Case Reports in 2024 documented something unexpected: a patient whose hair significantly improved on tirzepatide
Mutations in both proB and proA , the first two genes in L-proline biosynthesis, provided a new pathway for -glutamyl cysteine formation via the selective interception of ProB-bound -glutamyl phosphate by amino acid thiols, likely through an S-to-N acyl shift mechanism
2), indicating that the general mechanism with a separate oxidative and reductive half-reaction was not altered by the mutations