And she champions gut health
A recent study (7) found that people taking GLP-1 medications frequently fall short of recommended daily intakes for several essential nutrients, including fibre, calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, choline, and vitamins A, C, D, and E
Some patients find their side effect profile worsens at this level and choose to step back to 10mg for maintenance
This is the most common thing patients say in their first month on GLP-1 therapy
This is primarily due to L-carnitines ability to preserve muscle glycogen and use fatty acids as energy during exercise, sparing the use of amino acids, making them available for new protein synthesis to rebuild and grow muscle, per 2020 research in Molecules
This finding was again substantiated by blinded analysis of EM images (Figure 3C)