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Balanced Perspective: Conditional Game Changer The evidence suggests that GLP-1 agonists represent a conditional game changertransformative for appropriate patients with adequate access and support, but with significant limitations that prevent universal application
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Since Vitamin B12 is mostly taken in with animal products such as meats, shellfish, dairy and eggs, people who abstain from animal based proteins are more commonly afflicted
Phase 2 trial (NEJM, 2023) The landmark Phase 2 trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, randomized 338 adults with obesity to receive weekly subcutaneous retatrutide at doses of 1 mg, 4 mg, 8 mg, or 12 mg, or placebo, for 48 weeks