Akbari, M., Lankarani, K.B., Tabrizi, R., Ghayour-Mobarhan, M., Peymani, P., Ferns, G., Ghaderi, A
The research also points to important and perhaps underappreciated risks of these drugs
With increasing frequency over the past few years, optometrists across the country have gotten referrals from internists requesting baseline diabetic retinopathy (DR) screenings for patients about to start therapy with one of the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)/glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) receptor agonists such as semaglutide (Ozempic, Novo Nordisk), tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Eli Lilly) and dulaglutide (Trulicity, Eli Lilly
Exercise studies in healthy young men showed that skeletal muscle MOTS-c levels increase nearly 12-fold after acute exercise, suggesting this peptide mediates some of the metabolic benefits of physical activity