You've watched others shed pounds in a matter of weeks after taking one of the new blockbuster weight-loss drugs, so you decide to try one of the medications yourself, only to discover the needle on your bathroom scale barely budges.
, so you decide to try one of the medications yourself, only to discover the needle on your bathroom scale barely budges.
Some patients will lose 20% or more of their body weight, but one study found that roughly 1 in 7 people who used the GLP-1 agonist semaglutide for more than a year didn't lose at least 5% of their starting weight. The test, MyPhenome, was developed by researchers at the Mayo Clinic and licensed last year by a company they founded called Phenomix Sciences. It costs $350 and must be ordered by a health care provider,," lead investigator Dr. Maria Daniela Hurtado Andrade said in a company news release. "Furthermore, our results underscore the potential of individualizing therapy to improve outcomes that will ultimately translate into improved health.
Acosta says the test classifies those people as having a hungry brain, and they may need different types of interventions toAfter a year, people who were hungry gut-positive lost an average of 19% of their starting weight while on semaglutide, nearly double the 10% of body weight lost by people who were hungry-gut negative.
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