Many people with obesity already carry internalized shame and guilt, and while GLP-1s may provide a solution to obesity, they dont come without stigmas of their own
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Suicide Risk with Bariatric Surgery Raises Concerns About GLP-1 Questions about a link between suicidality and GLP-1 agonists first came to public awareness in July 2023, when the Icelandic national health department described three patients taking the drugs, two of whom had suicidal thoughts and one who engaged in self-harm
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During hypoglycaemia, insulin secretion is reduced and glucagon secretion is not inhibited
The results from the Boston collaborators raised questions about the physiological way that GLP-1 prompted the release of insulin, a phenomenon described as an 'insulinotropic effect' (Drucker, Philippe, Mojsov)