How Semaglutide Boosts Lean Mass

Name: How Semaglutide Boosts Lean Mass
Uploaded: 2024-10-17T16:00:07+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube video (single speaker) summarizing a 2019 trial comparing semaglutide to a similar, lower-dose GLP-1 drug. The speaker…

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (single speaker) summarizing a 2019 trial comparing semaglutide to a similar, lower-dose GLP-1 drug. The speaker reports DEXA-scan body-composition results: participants lost about six pounds on average; absolute lean mass fell slightly but lean mass increased as a percentage of total body weight, while body fat percentage declined.

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First article in 2019. Now, these were comparing semaglutide to another similar drug as lower doses than semaglutide that we use for currently for weight loss. And they saw that lean muscle mass went up as a percentage of total body weight, and people lost an average of six pounds of weight, but their lean body mass went up as a percentage of their total weight. Now, the way that's measured in this case, what's called a DEXA scan, even though they lost a little bit of lean body weight, the percentage of lean body weight went up as a percentage of their total weight, but the total body fat went down as a percentage of their total weight.