LSU researchers find GLP-1 drugs show unexpected positive health benefits

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Researchers at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in partnership with the University of Colorado, examined GLP-1 medications and their unanticipated side effects, many of which they found to be positive.

The editorial by Dr. Steven Heymsfield and Dr. Adam Gilden, “Unanticipated Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A Net Positive,” highlights benefits of the medication that weren’t expected upon initial development.

“Most of the unanticipated side effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists have been positive,” Heymsfield and Gilden wrote…

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