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Your doctor will assess your condition, inquire about side effects, check blood sugar levels, review your medical history, and then adjust the dosage for better weight loss results
A 2025 review in Endocrinology describes how injected GLP-1-based medications reach concentrations far above the natural hormone and act principally on GLP-1 receptor neurons in those circumventricular organs, especially the area postrema, and in adjacent regions such as the nucleus tractus solitarius
In addition, GLP-1R is moderately in the lung, heart, kidney, blood vessels, pancreatic alpha cells, and peripheral nervous system, with no expression of GLP-1R in liver, skeletal muscle or adipose tissue (109112)