When you add obesity medicine training and certification, and when youre working within a functional medicine framework that addresses nutrition, lifestyle, and metabolic health comprehensively, prescribing GLP-1s makes complete sense
In addition, peripheral ghrelin administration at a dose almost double physiological levels (5 pmol/kg/min) increased acute food intake by nearly 30% in humans 215
Until then, the cardiovascular benefit seen with injectable semaglutide cannot be assumed to apply to the oral formulation
Specific dietary choices can directly trigger GLP-1 secretion from intestinal L-cells
Emerging mechanistic data highlight epithelial repair pathways as actionable therapeutic targets
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