These include increasing muscle mass (1,49, 55,), reducing body fat (49, 50, 51), helping to maintain muscle mass during weight loss (51), suppressing appetite to aid fat loss, increasing metabolism (50), improving immune function, reducing blood pressure (52), reducing unhealthy blood fats (53), improving blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetics, and increasing the production of glutathione, the bodys master antioxidant (54)
This mechanism contributes to weight loss, with clinical trials of semaglutide 2.4mg (Wegovy) demonstrating average weight reductions of 1015% of body weight over 1218 months
other peptides are available from compounding pharmacies
Zinc works alongside vitamin C to strengthen your immune defenses, while magnesium helps calm down inflammatory signals called cytokines, reducing inflammation markers by up to 20%
3 Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
doi: 10.1093/brain/aws059 213 ZhangR