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Dr. Chris Palmer: Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health

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Semagluetide and GLP-1 Related Compounds - What Are Your Thoughts?

There's a new class of drugs that I think initially were developed to treat diabetes but are now being evaluated for their efficacy to treat obesity. These are the semagluetide drugs that are involved in, they tap into these glucagon-related GLP-1 pathways and this is a story that we've talked about a little bit on the podcast before. The real answer is I am not at all an expert on these medications. They obviously adjust the way that glucose and insulin are managing energy both in the body and the brain and can produce weight loss. But a good logical shift in diet and exercise could achieve similar weight loss but a lot of people just won't do that.

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