mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin
A 42-year-old female with longstanding profound fatigue, chronic pain, asthma, multiple food intolerances, GI symptoms including diarrhea, urticaria, food cravings, weight gain, and migraine who was essentially housebound due to constant exhaustion (she estimated 30% of normal energy) took tirzepitide at 3.75 mg principally to address obesity
Even clinicians who are not as familiar with these medications will ask me, 'I have a patient on Mounjaro who's not losing weight can we switch to Zepbound? without realizing its exactly the same drug. To complicate matters, pharmaceutical companies are quickly working on new drugs including triple agonists that target GLP-1, GIP and glucagon receptors as well as oral versions of each drug
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Since these agents are resistant to rapid enzymatic degradation, they maintain prolonged metabolic activity