It works by helping your muscles rapidly regenerate ATP, the energy currency for short, intense effort, which supports strength and training output, and training output is exactly what preserves muscle during weight loss
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It may help lower blood pressure as part of weight loss and metabolic improvement, but high blood pressure should still be managed with medical guidance
That said, talk to your functional medicine physician if you have a medical condition, are on medications, or have or implanted devices
If you're on Medicare and have been waiting for a window to explore GLP-1 treatment, this year may be the right time to start that conversation
In cultured human myocytes, GLP-1 mediated an increase in glycogen synthase-a activity, where exendin-4 led to dose-dependent increases in both glucose uptake and glycogen synthase-a [99]