The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that global shortages of drugs that are indicated to manage type 2 diabetes and, in some cases, approved for weight loss, also known as glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1-RA) products, "have been associated with an increase in reports of falsified GLP-1-RA" over the past year
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Conflict of interest BG reports receiving fees for serving on an advisory board from Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca, and MSD
Historically, natural products have demonstrated considerable potential as a source of drug discovery with the help of their chemical structure and recent endeavors on this field have focused on investigating the GLP-1 activating capabilities of various products which are naturally sourced from traditionally employed medicinal flora or nutritional origins