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Hence, it was being prescribed off label for weight loss (as the diabetic drug, Ozempic) long before it was FDA approved as Wegovy for obesity
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Rather, their most plausible role emerges during the consolidation and maintenance phases of GLP-1based therapy, when preserving metabolic stability and lean tissue becomes a priority
The team developed a high-specificity mass spectrometry assay that detects only the bioactive form of GLP-1 -- the version that actually stimulates insulin -- not the inactive fragments that often muddy results