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When adults lose weight using GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, their muscles seem to change in a healthy way — not losing strength or quality, and possibly even improving how they work.

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Muscle Mass and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: Adaptive or Maladaptive Response to Weight Loss?

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2024 Oct 15

The study looks at how weight-loss drugs called GLP-1 RAs affect muscles and finds that muscle changes are normal and healthy, not harmful, which supports the claim.

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Muscle Mass and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: Adaptive or Maladaptive Response to Weight Loss?

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DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.067676

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