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by CyanLite2 214 days ago
Its not upside per se, more like avoiding the downsides of diabetes and obesity.

Healthy, non-obese individuals likely aren't seeing these "benefits"... But I'm not a doctor, I just pretend to be one on the Internet.

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This isn't true, the heart and kidney benefits appear independent of weight loss. I would encourage you to let the physicians speak to these effects instead of making educated conjecture; it is tough to keep ahead of all of the claims about these medications with my patients.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn4128