Hungry if you don’t take it, forget to eat if you do? Who is this new drug, which can stabilize blood sugar and reduce waist size, suitable for?

In recent years, many public figures who have been "plump" in front of the camera for years and have publicly disclosed their m

In recent years, many public figures who have been “plump” in front of the camera for years and have publicly disclosed their metabolic disease history have become “as thin as two people” in just a fewmonths, and eventrended on social media and made headlines.

Many friends have come to me to “gossip”, and the questions have evolved from the initial“What do you say, what kind of technology and fierce efforts did he use?”Gradually upgraded – first asked bluntly“Did he take semaglutide?”,Recently, it has been directly asked“Is there a more effective drug than semag than semag? That… tirzepatide?”

Today, let’s talk about this topic. If you are “confused” by these drug names, you can read on paragraph by paragraph; if you are only eager to know “is there a more effective drug than semag”, you can directly jump to the corresponding paragraph below.

How do these drugs cause weight loss?

The mechanism behind it is related to“insulin”.

Under normal circumstances, after we eat, the blood sugar in our body will increase,the body will secrete the hormone “insulin”,“directing” glucose to various parts of the body, such as muscles and liver.

However, sometimesinsulin secretion can be problematic,such as not secreting, delayed secretion, or not being able to direct the body to process glucose(insulin resistance), then it willtrigger“diabetes”.. Many diabetic patients will exhibit frequent hunger, which is related toblood sugar levels.

As early as the 1960s and 1970s, scientists discovered an interesting phenomenon:oral glucose causes a stronger insulin secretion response than intravenous injection.In this phenomenon, two incretin hormones played a key role –Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP)andGlucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1).This provided a new idea for the treatment of diabetes.