Many of the health benefits, including cardiovascular and kidney health, have been shown to go beyond or be unrelated to changes in body weight.
Many of the health benefits, including cardiovascular and kidney health, have been shown to go beyond or be unrelated to changes in body weight.
Lower visceral fat as a percentage of body weight may bring benefits that are greater than proportional to total body mass lost.
Nobody's denying this, but the interesting story about GLP-1s is that after you control for fat loss (for instance, by taking cohorts of patients that aren't losing weight) you still get evidence of these off-target effects.