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What are GLP-1 medications and how do they work?
Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses what GLP-1 medications are and how they work in the management of diabetes.
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So GLP-1 medications are, it's a kind of therapy which is predominantly based on a peptide which would control the feedback loop for appetite. One of your appetite receptors are found in the nuclei, which normally have an impaired feedback loop during obesity or during type 2 diabetes. With GLP-1 treatment peptide, that feedback loop can be restored. These could be administered in the form of injections, either every week or in the form of tablets now. These are essentially, in context, peptides that will control your appetite. And clearly, it would help in management to predominantly type 2 diabetes, and it's not licensed to be used in type 1 diabetes.
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