Fun Fact ,A venomous lizard (Gila monster) started GLP1's

[DjJoshua]

Something I stumbled on,
The story of GLP-1 medications really did start with the venom (more precisely, the saliva/venom secretions) of the Gila monster, a venomous lizard from the southwestern United States.

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A poisonous desert lizard, a stubborn scientist in a Bronx VA hospital, and a government that refused to patent the discovery — this is the unlikely story of…

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[Derby]

Dr. Brad Stanfield (physician from New Zealand) put out a video today about this topic and the newer potential uses for the GLP1-RAs

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1he4pHzpw

 

[randompersonrandom]

I've said more than once that if you'd told me in the late 2000's that gila monster spit would make me skinny and made me believe it, I'd have gotten a pet Gila monster in a heartbeat and me and Mr Spittles would have been making out every single day til I could fit into those size seven L.E.I.'s (that I wear now without having to resort to that.)