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As of 2024, researchers estimated that about 12% or one in every eight adult Americans had ever taken a GLP-1 medication
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They are also densely expressed in the VTA and nucleus accumbens the exact brain regions that drive addictive behavior
Dysregulated insulin, cortisol, thyroid hormones, and leptin can also make it difficult to lose visceral fat
Although there are data in animal models supporting that this is true, particularly in diet-induced obese mice, in which brown adipose tissue activity is regulated [8], there is no convincing evidence that this occurs in humans [6]
