May Help Balance Hormones While weight loss and insulin improvements are the most well-documented effects of GLP-1 therapy, some research suggests that losing weight through this treatment can also improve hormonal balance
Macrophage NCOR1 protects from atherosclerosis by repressing a pro-atherogenic PPAR signature
In a Phase III clinical trial, the Wegovy pill resulted in an average weight loss of 16% in participants who took the medication over 64 weeks
Stimulates Insulin Secretion GLP-1 enhances the release of insulin from the pancreas in response to food intake
Due to this interdependent relationship, gut dysbiosis, a compositional and functional alteration of GM (Levy et al., 2017), may influence host susceptibility to many immune-mediated diseases such as RA, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and systemic lupus erythematosus (Zhong et al., 2018)