Common Side Effects: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain, decreased appetite, dysgeusia, dyspepsia (predominate during titration)
L-Tyrosine has lower absorption and may be less effective at crossing the blood-brain barrier, but is still great for muscle and workout benefits
The hormonal biology of menopause is increasingly understood as a contributing factor to that disparity, and the convergence of estrogen and GLP-1 signaling in the brain offers a mechanistic framework for understanding why, and potentially what to do about it
It does not cause hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) on its own, and it often leads to modest weight loss
2 Cryogenic electron microscopy (CEM) imaging demonstrates that orforglipron binds within the upper helical bundle of GLP-1R and acts as a highly potent partial agonist that favors cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) signaling over beta-arrestin recruitment