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There's humor that a drug developed to treat diabetes, using a peptide we know physiologically to lower blood sugar, and secondarily found to also help drop wei
by istultus 2y ago
There's humor that a drug developed to treat diabetes, using a peptide we know physiologically to lower blood sugar, and secondarily found to also help drop weight is now getting headlines showing that it does its stated purpose.*
* Yes, I get that this is supposedly a preventive study - but if your metric for diabetes is blood glucose level, and you take a drug that lowers blood glucose level, it's not surprising that people on it are found to "fail" to reach the given threshold for diabetes on average
- efitz 2y agoAnd the TFA is basically an interview with the CEO of the company that makes the drug, saying "it works".