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@androidsixteen.eth
Itā€™s ironic that weā€™re simultaneously acknowledging the downsides of plastics and promoting GLP-1 meds Itā€™s the hubris of a materially advanced society ā€” we canā€™t fathom how engineering our materials and our bodies could be bad for us Though the negatives of GLPs will likely be discovered sooner (spoiler alert: muscle loss)
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Question about the muscle loss comment, have you read something recently? I haven't looked into all this so I am not up to date. Educational guess I'd say it's in relationship to losing weight doing nothing as opposed to previously people would actually work out etc...
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452302X24002869 ā€œWhile these findings are promising for CV patients, a side-effect of GLP-1RAs use is the loss of skeletal muscle (lean BW) mass.ā€ ā€œOverall, these data show that semaglutide has an effect on the cardiomyocyte resulting in reduced cardiomyocyte size and cardiac mass in lean and obese miceā€
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@degenveteran.eth
Ahhh interesting, so from a CV study. šŸ™
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I think there is more research out there if you dig I also have a thesis thatā€™s more in line with TCM, but that might be for another dayā€¦
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Research aside, my fitness company has been receiving an influx of requests for our trainers to aid them while on GLP-1. Anecdotally, muscle loss seems to happen before the fat loss. I havenā€™t seen a direct causative study on this but it seems itā€™s more than just losing muscle from inactivity. There seems to be a correlation between the compound and direct muscle loss.
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