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One of the major challenges Drucker and his collaborators now face is determining exactly what mechanism is at play

Todays insight comes from our GLP-1 Study

People are using them inappropriately, he said

A widely cited extension of the STEP 1 trial found that participants who stopped semaglutide regained roughly two-thirds of their weight loss within a year

These medications carry a boxed warning about thyroid C-cell tumors (contraindicated with personal/family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2) and warnings about potential risks including pancreatitis, gallbladder disease, acute kidney injury with dehydration, and worsening diabetic retinopathy with rapid glucose reduction (particularly with semaglutide)