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Theres also a new medication in development that targets three hormones (GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon), which may be even more effective for weight loss
Soudah and colleagues provide a foundation for future investigations into how treatments for metabolic disease might also influence neurological outcomesan area that could reshape approaches to both diabetes and age-related cognitive disorders.
Tirzepatide added a second hormone target (GIP) to make it a dual agonist, and thats why it outperformed semaglutide in head-to-head trials