There is enormous exuberance about starting GLP-1 drugs, but not nearly enough attention to what happens when people stop, said senior author Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, a WashU Medicine clinical epidemiologist and chief of the Research and Development Service at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System
GLP-1 medications have gained a reputation for being a magic bullet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes management and obesity
All these technologies monitor muscle mass but not muscle health, quality, or function
Routine labs (CBC, CMP including ALT/AST, lipid panel, fasting glucose, HbA1c) before starting and on a regular schedule under clinician oversight
Later, Lotte Knudsen and her team created analogues of human GLP1
Alternate between left abdomen, right abdomen, left thigh, right thigh in a consistent rotation