Semaglutide As Diabetes Treatment

Semaglutide was first developed for the treatment of diabetes. It's called a GLP1 glucagon, like peptide 1 agonist. It simulates a naturally occurring peptide in our body that favors weight loss by decreasing appetite, by improving insulin activity. It actually works in the brain and the pancreas, which makes insulin and even your GI tract. It was designed for diabetes, and it works for diabetes. It was first FDA approved for diabetes, but we noticed a side effect is those diabetics were losing far more weight than we'd expect normally with diabetic medications. So most diabetic medications do help with weight maintenance just by improving blood sugar. Somewhere between 15 and 20% of body weight was typically lost in the first year or so. It's actually a little lower than that in diabetics. But in people, when they study for weight loss, then they started studying the same drugs, pretty much the same doses for people that did not have diabetes.