obesity
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“For patients I see in clinic, retatrutide may potentially be a highly impactful future tool to treat their obesity and transform their health trajectory.”
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Instead people in these studies were already taking the drugs for diabetes or obesity and researchers gleaned insights from their medical records.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
"This protein really targets RNA for rapid degradation," says Kirkwood, who has spent decades studying obesity, aging, oral inflammation, periodontal disease, and oral cancer progression.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
People who have prediabetes, Type 2 diabetes or severe obesity, for example, tend to have lower GLP-1 than those who are metabolically healthy.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
“Increasingly, though, there’s evidence that watching TV—and, especially, watching junk food ads on TV—promotes obesity by changing mainly what and how much people eat, less so by changing how much they move.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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