GLP-1 drugs do far more than suppress appetite. They promote metabolic healing, regenerate nerve tissue, may slow Alzheimer's progression, and could help prevent type 1 diabetes and autoimmune disease by acting on brain receptors throughout the body.
It is definitely acting on the metabolism. So improving metabolic health. It's healing metabolic health. It doesn't just band aid it for the time that you're on it. It actually has a healing and regenerative effect on your metabolic health in a myriad of ways. But it also is manufactured in the brain. People think it's just coming out of the L cells of the gut. It's made in the brain as well. And there's multitudes of receptors across the brain for it to receive it. We don't know what they all do. Like, for instance, in your nausea and vomiting center in your brain stem, there's a bed of GLP1 receptors. I think that's why some people get more nause others. But it actually remyelinates the nerves. It's neuroregenerative. Those who are experiencing mild cognitive decline are seeing they're not progressing down the pathway to the more severe forms, like Alzheimer's. There was some data around type 1 diabetics. If caught early enough and administered GLP1s, that they may not go full bore into type 1 diabetes. It has an impact on our immune system, so it's quelling autoimmune disease.
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