The Takeaway Twenty-six percent is a massive weight loss number, and suggests that Mounjaro truly might earn its reputation as the King Kong of GLP-1s, assuming its FDA approval process for weight loss goes as Lilly intends.
In this episode John and Professor Shah open with why insulin alone has structural limitations in type 1 diabetes, work through how GLP-1 therapies act on the body, and then walk the trial evidence from the early exenatide and liraglutide studies to the more recent semaglutide and tirzepatide data
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