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Re:Diabetes Breakthrough: New Treatment Eliminates Insulin f... by baq on Thursday October 17, 2024 @06:32PM (#41874478)
GLP-1 drugs don’t make you burn fat, they make you eat healthy (or healthier, at least). That’s why they’re so amazingly effective and the reason why is even more amazing - they hack your reward subsystem.
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Re:Diabetes Breakthrough: New Treatment Eliminates Insulin f... by nradov on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:02PM (#41874681)
GLP-1 drugs seem to increase resting heart rate. I suspect that also increases total daily energy expenditure, although I don't know that we have reliable data on that yet.
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Re:Diabetes Breakthrough: New Treatment Eliminates Insulin f... by rootusrootus on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:14PM (#41874769)
That can happen, but is not universal. My resting heart rate has been dropping (probably in lock step with my weight), it has not risen one bit since I started taking tirzepatide. And my heart rate variability has been trending up, not down.

Why do you suspect it changes energy expenditure?

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