Researchers mined Reddit with AI to find possible side effects people report from a GLP-1 drug that hasn't been approved yet.
Recap by typeshit. Full story at Medical Xpress.
European regulators first raised NAION, a rare optic nerve condition sometimes called an eye stroke, as a possible risk more than 15 months ago.
Users described more appetite, fatigue, extra energy and insomnia. An analysis of Reddit comments, not a clinical trial, so the findings come from self-reports.
Online sellers pitch peptides for weight loss, anti-aging and muscle gain, and Gavin Coote's full story looks at the risks of products nobody regulates.
A surgeon on social media says the FDA has received two death reports involving black-market retatrutide. No official FDA statement is linked.
Retatrutide is still in trials and not FDA approved, she notes, yet some college students are getting it from online sellers anyway.
A research letter by Uscher-Pines et al. surveyed 2,009 US adults on GLP-1 use and alcohol. He flags important caveats in reading the results.
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