Liraglutide
FDA approved
Digestion and weight
Digestion and weightHow it works
A daily GLP-1 analog, the gut's fullness hormone, with a fatty tail that grips albumin so it lasts. For type 2 diabetes, obesity.
What it's made of
31 amino acids: human GLP-1 with 1 change (97% the same) and a 16-carbon fat, palmitic acid, that sticks it to albumin. It lasts about 13 hours.
What it's for
- Prescribed for
- Type 2 diabetes from age 10; fewer heart attacks and strokes in people with diabetes; obesity from age 12 and, in the EU, from age 6 with at least 45 kg.
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