The European Medicines Agency has reviewed all available data on NAION with semaglutide, including data from non-clinical studies, clinical trials, post-marketing surveillance and the medical literature, and has concluded that NAION is a very rare side effect of semaglutide (meaning it may affect up to 1 in 1,000 people taking semaglutide) 3
Dosing typically starts low and is gradually increased over several weeks to help the body adjust and minimize side effects
In line with preclinical research, we find that ghrelin increases reward responses across studies in key nodes of the motivational circuit, such as the nucleus accumbens, pallidum, putamen, substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area, and the dorsal mid insula
Particularly high concentrations are found in skeletal muscle (around 80 % of all L-carnitine) and in the heart muscle