What to Eat (and Limit) if You're Taking a GLP-1 and Have Type 2 Diabetes That can be a good thing for your blood sugar level (fewer big meals means fewer blood sugar spikes), but it can also introduce an additional challenge: eating enough nutrients to protect your heart health, muscle mass, and metabolic health
Studies in mice with CNS neuron-specific GLP-1R knockout showed that liraglutide failed to induce weight loss but still improved glucose levels, suggesting that brain GLP-1Rs are necessary for the weight-lowering effect of GLP-1RAs but not essential for their glucose-lowering effects (142)
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These additional activity pathways may explain why early studies suggest greater average weight loss with retatrutide