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Stop or switch in consultation with your prescriber if any of the following appear despite hitting the 7 rules above: hand-grip strength drops more than 10% from baseline, you cannot climb one flight of stairs without significant fatigue, a 6-month DEXA shows more than 25% of total weight loss as lean mass, or you are losing more than 1.5% of bodyweight per week despite eating 1.6 g of protein per kilogram

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This dual mechanism distinguishes it from single-pathway GLP-1 agonists

In a 10-week clinical trial, a daily dose of 20 mg oral semaglutide achieved a steady-state plasma concentration of 30 nM, and when daily dose of oral semaglutide was increased to 40 mg, the semaglutide plasma concentration reached about 60 nM (102), which was over a thousand times higher than the EC50 of semaglutide for GLP-1R activation (95)