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Gooblebraitoday at 8:48 PM4 repliesview on HN

What has anything in this article to do with Ozempic? Is mentioned in the title once and never again. Engagement bait?


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projektfutoday at 9:00 PM

"Hunger and sleep, argues Dan Skovronsky, the firm’s chief scientific officer, are both 'master homeostasis mechanisms'—systems that keep the body in balance. When they misbehave, illness follows. That, he says, helps explain why incretins, the hormone family behind GLP-1, proved so broadly useful. Hence why orexins could be just as important."

Also, orexins are peptides, like semaglutide (Ozempic), although in a different family.

matt_heimertoday at 8:52 PM

Ozempic == GLP-1 which the first visible paragraph is discussing.

_diyartoday at 8:57 PM

Ozempic is the poster boy for peptides.

RIMRtoday at 8:55 PM

Your brain is gonna lose so much weight!

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