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Metabolic & Weight
This Weight-Loss Hormone Protected Mouse Livers Without a Pound Lost. Novo Nordisk Supplied It and Put Two Scientists on the Study.
The hormone works through the same brainstem switch that makes weight-loss drugs nauseating, and the company developing it supplied the compound, funded the mouse study, and put two of its scientists on the author list.
Metabolic & WeightThe Fat Rebound Pediatricians Watch For at Age Six: Measure the Waist, and It Turns Out to Be Muscle and Bone
Waist-to-height ratio tracks body fat with about 90 percent accuracy. In 2,410 American kids it kept falling straight through the age when BMI says the fat comes roaring back.
Metabolic & WeightThe Ozempic 'Resistance' Headline the Data Didn't Quite Earn
A new study identifies PAM-gene variants tied to weaker six-month HbA1c response to GLP-1 diabetes drugs, but the 'why Ozempic may not work' framing imports a weight-loss conclusion the paper doesn't reach, and the buried trials that used longer-acting GLP-1 drugs showed no carrier effect at all.