The structural reason: patients who stop semaglutide regain weight, so the healthcare-savings channel only delivers if treatment continues
Never stop semaglutide without guidance, as stopping and restarting can also trigger stone formation
This dual action enhances insulin secretion, lowers glucagon levels, and slows gastric emptying, resulting in reduced appetite and increased feelings of fullness
After factoring in GLP-1 prescriptions and comparing women of similar ages, races and ethnicities, BMIs, breast densities and Type 2 diabetes statuses, researchers found significantly lower rates of breast cancer in those who had used a weight-loss medication
That is, both effectively stimulate growth hormone secretion, and each one does so at a complementary rate of time release one sustained, the other immediate
Volkow notes that such a mechanism could interfere with that incentive, motivational drive, that consumption reinforces and generates in our brain it just blocks it. That is of course extremely important for drugs, because thats what drugs do: Immediately activates a system, and you just want more and more and more and it escalates