Step 4: Pinch a fold of skin at your chosen site
With respect to effects on food intake exerted via the hypothalamus when either OXM or GLP-1 are administered peripherally they exert differential neuronal activation within the hypothalamus
Understanding how to maintain benefits after stopping tirzepatide and how to wean off properly matters because some benefits may persist after discontinuation (improved metabolic health, resolved sleep apnea) while others may diminish (direct anti-inflammatory effects, lipid improvements)
Some of these compounds not only directly affect TC cells by reducing their viability, proliferation, or their ability to migrate to the metastatic side, but also indirectly affect cancer progression by regulating the secretion of pro-tumorigenic chemokines in the TC microenvironment
The conversation covers how our understanding of obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease has changed over the past 30 years, what the new clinical versus preclinical obesity framework means for how we diagnose and treat it, how GLP-1 drugs work and why they've succeeded where earlier medications failed, what the STEP and SELECT trials revealed about the disease-modifying potential of semaglutide, and how patients and clinicians should be thinking about who these drugs are really for