For patients with conditions like lupus , endometriosis , or lipedema , the anti-inflammatory effects combined with weight loss represent a potentially significant quality of life intervention
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They may also help reduce risks related to cardiovascular disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and obstructive sleep apnea
The companies that worked on this, then, in the 70s, the 80s, included Lilly and Novo, actually, but it wasnt until the Gila monster story kicked in in the late 80sI think this guy named John Eng in the Bronx was interested in why certain animals didnt need to eat very often and identified this mimic of the human peptide, but used for this lizards own purposes, exendin, which mimics GLP-1