The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the medication to treat type 2 diabetes but health care providers also prescribe it off-label (uses other than originally intended) for the treatment of obesity or to help with weight management
The studys primary outcome of interest was the percentage change in body weight from baseline to 24 weeks
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Even if berberine does increase endogenous GLP-1 levels to some degree, this indirect effect is mechanistically and clinically distinct from the direct receptor agonism provided by pharmaceutical GLP-1 agonists
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Insulin levels during the glucose tolerance test were substantially lowered in the calorie-restricted mice and in mice treated with GLP-1MK-801 (Extended Data Fig