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266: Wegovy in the brain, pivotal Alzheimer's data, & pulling Threads

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The Effects of GLP1 Drugs on Appetite Suppression

By the mid 2000s, scientists had come to think of GLP1 drugs as primarily acting in the gut. But then new data shifted their thinking, what happened? This is primarily done lab studies with mice and with pigs. And the focus was really on sort of the gut brain connection that was mediated by something called the vagus nerves.

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