Reason 2: Muscle Gain Is Outpacing Fat Loss This is actually a happy reason for the scale to go up
It mimics a natural gut hormone to lower blood sugar, slow gastric emptying, and reduce appetite
Energy lifts within hours
The exclusion of patients treated with DPP-4 inhibitors from this study is justified by the classification of both GLP-1 RAs and DPP-4 inhibitors as incretin-based therapies
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Acknowledgments I thank Lily Lu, MD, PhD for her critical comments and David Liu and Erika Liu for their assistance with editing