Pain scores improved by approximately 76% on the WOMAC scale, and more than 12% of Retatrutide-treated participants reported complete freedom from knee pain at week 68, compared to 4.2% on placebo
When you start semaglutide therapy, your appetite naturally decreases and your fullness signals strengthenchanges driven by activation of GLP-1 receptors in your brain and gut
Furthermore, transferring neutrophils from mice with periodontitis into diabetic mice reproduced these effects, confirming that inflammatory BM neutrophils contributed directly to disease progression
doi: 10.3389/fendo.2026.1784709 Received 10 January 2026 Revised 30 January 2026 Accepted 30 January 2026 Published 18 February 2026 Volume 17 - 2026 Edited by Marcia Hiriart, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico Reviewed by Jialin Fan, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States Kei Shing Ng, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Updates Copyright 2026 Liu, Ren, Zhang and Ma