For someone at a healthy weight without diabetes, GLP-1 medications come with real costs: gastrointestinal side effects, monthly expense, the time and attention of follow-up, and the small risks that come with any medication
Lowering blood glucose levels is the basis of diabetes treatment, not only in terms of preventing microvascular complications, including CKD, but also in preventing cardiovascular events
Liposomal formulations maintained or enhanced these effects: BC-Lipo arrested 68.52 6.9% in G/G (22.92 2.3% S, 8.56 0.9% G/M), while DOX-Lipo reached 83.37 8.3% G/G (13.46 1.3% S, 3.17 0.3% G/M)
Tissue repair: Studies demonstrate accelerated healing of tendons, ligaments, muscles, and bones
Studies performed in various cell types have shown that the activation of GLP-1R by GLP-1 results in the rapid recruitment of arrestin (Manchanda et al., 2023)