Al-Aly is a physician and researcher at Washington University in St. Louis and chief of research at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System. At a dinner party recently, someone poured my friend a glass ...
A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn't use a patch. He ...
Researchers believe that GLP-1 drugs act on reward areas of the brain that are responsible for food cravings, making it possible that they silence cravings for addictive substances. The Conversation — ...