What the Evidence Shows and What It Does Not MedicalDaily Evidence Check Data source: Multiple peer-reviewed studies published 2025-2026, including British Journal of Pharmacology, Nature Reviews Endocrinology, and body composition literature on STEP and SURMOUNT trial data Key finding: Up to 40% of weight lost on high-efficacy GLP-1 drugs is lean body mass
The companies that worked on this, then, in the 70s, the 80s, included Lilly and Novo, actually, but it wasnt until the Gila monster story kicked in in the late 80sI think this guy named John Eng in the Bronx was interested in why certain animals didnt need to eat very often and identified this mimic of the human peptide, but used for this lizards own purposes, exendin, which mimics GLP-1
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