Mood and appetite, he explained, are closely related (think of stressful eating or eating when we are sad, comfort food), and a benefit of [GLP-1 drugs] is that they help control appetite and satiety, which allows patients to make better meal choices and become healthier. So, the modest improvement in depression seen in the study may be related to weight loss, improved blood sugars, [fewer diabetes] symptoms, and likely an overall sense of patients getting healthier, Splenser hypothesized
The present study relied on self-reports for nutritional intake and physical activity information
None of the treatments led to conditioned taste aversion (Supplementary Fig
Mechanistically, its benefits were mediated through attenuation of oxidative stress, preservation of antioxidant defenses, modulation of apoptosis-related gene expression, and structural protection of cardiomyocyte organelles