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…