Retatrutide keeps helping people lose weight steadily for a whole year without slowing down, while other weight-loss drugs like GLP-1s tend to stop working as well after a few months.

A drug called retatrutide probably helps people with obesity or type 2 diabetes lose about 14% of their body weight when given as a weekly shot for up to a year, and higher doses seem to lead to more weight loss.

A drug called retatrutide helps people lose a lot of weight—sometimes over 70 pounds—by targeting certain hormones, but it works so well that it can cause unexpected health problems.

A new weight-loss drug called retatrutide might help people with obesity lose about a quarter of their body weight in less than a year—and it could work even better and faster than weight-loss surgery or other medicines we have now.

In nondiabetic adults with overweight or obesity, the drug Retatrutide lowers levels of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood by specific amounts, and based on current data, it shows greater lipid-lowering effects than other GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs.

If you're losing weight with retatrutide but not eating enough protein or doing strength training, you might lose a lot of muscle because your body starts breaking it down.