Dr. Betty Murray describes struggling to eat chicken while on GLP-1 medications, raising concerns about getting enough protein. Some clinicians have started microdosing GLP-1s over the past two years, finding that lower doses deliver benefits without killing appetite so severely.
Whenever I put a piece of animal protein in my mouth, it was everything I had to actually choke down a couple ounces. For me, it was very, very difficult. And I was like, this is unattainable. I can't, I can't take these medications and also fight through a piece of chicken breast, right? And so my concern always back then was, how do you get in that protein amount that you need when that's the one food you absolutely don't want? And so for a lot of practitioners that have been microdosing over the last 2 years, what they're finding is they can get that sort of benefit without actually moving the dose so high that it starts to impair the intake of protein.
