glp-1 medications can cause unexpected physical and psychological side effects. Starting GLP-1s: What Users Wish They Knew, How To Feel More Confident From Day One Weight Reduction with GLP-1 Agonists

"By decreasing weight, this class of medications helps to decrease some of the inflammation that we see, and some of the insulin resistance." Although Slomovitz is not prescribing these drugs to his patients, he does "strongly" recommend them

Efficacy and safety of once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg versus placebo in people with obesity and prediabetes (STEP 10): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre phase 3 trial

The objective of this review is to discuss the established and speculative roles that hormones released by the pancreatic islets (such as insulin and glucagon) and digestive system (incretins [GLP-1 and GIP]) play in regulating metabolic homeostasis in healthy individuals

Rowbottom, L., Stinson, J., McDonald, R., Emmenegger, U., Cheng, S., Lowe, J., Giotis, A., Cheon, P., Chow, R., Pasetka, M., et al

To strengthen that evidence, rigorous studies comparing directly pairs of glucose-lowering therapies with similar indication are needed

When you should NOT focus on drug names (the steelman case) The strongest argument against obsessing over GLP-1 drug names is this: the name matters far less than the dose, titration schedule, and adherence pattern