Preclinical work shows GLP-1 signaling can reduce alcohol and drug intake in animals, likely by blunting dopamine release in reward pathways
or mechanical or clinical disease that increases protein breakdown that overwhelms the urea cycle (eg, port-systemic shunt, sepsis, crush injuries, and status epilepticus)
Because GLP-1 medications can sometimes reduce your thirst drive, it is easy to become mildly dehydrated
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[DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] 98.Wharton S, Lau DCW, Vallis M, et al
However, in hepatocytes the majority of the acetyl-CoA is not oxidized by the TCA cycle but is metabolized into the ketone bodies, acetoacetate and -hydroxybutyrate