GLP1 Medications - Where do they fit

Weight loss is hard and keeping it off is even harder. This is where GLP-1 medications can be of great help to change an individual’s perception about food and leave the obsessive cravings behind. It is a tool to get started and gain the inspiration to become motivated and make the necessary lifestyle eating behavioral changes necessary for weight loss. But GLP-1s are tools that are now also being used to treat many other chronic diseases in addition to weight loss. A reduction of chronic disease signs and symptoms involving heart, liver, arthritis and GI bowel diseases appears to be a result of the GLP-1s anti-inflammatory properties.

It is thought they decrease specific inflammatory hormones and antibodies that cause tissue destruction, inflammation and pain. But current research shows that some individuals on GLP-1‘s develop profound personality changes that are manifested as a dulling and flattening of their personality and results in a loss of feeling joy, pleasure and desire, as if they just don’t care, This psychological alteration is thought to result from genetic variances in an individual’s GLP-1 receptor sites and changes in the brain's ‘mesolimbic dopamine pathway circuits’ that regulate the desire for food, cigarettes, alcohol, sex, gambling and how personality preferences are expressed. These differential circuit responses are why some individuals, but not others, lose more weight, have fewer side effects and demonstrate fewer personality changes. GLP-1 medications affect different individuals in different ways and should be used with care and an understanding of their effects and under knowledgeable medical guidance.

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