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[quote=Anonymous]I'm obese, but not massive... I have some hereditary heart issues, but both my PCP and my cardiologist both agreed that I was what they would more or less describe as "fat healthy"... I exercise far more than recommended, have zero signs of even pre-diabetes, great cholesterol... but I have high blood pressure. They didn't tie that to my weight, believing there are other things going on with it (another post!), and suggested GLP1, because they both said that GLP1s controlled high blood pressure better than the BP medicine they would ordinarily prescribe... both said that this was strictly based on their own experience with their own patients, so making it clear it's not been studied or approved for use on BP, but they said to expect a fairly dramatic drop in my BP even before any weightloss, and then weight loss would likely lower it even further.

And that's exactly what happened—within days of taking my first dose, weeks and weeks before nay weight loss, my BP dropped out of hypertension range and has continued to inch down. They thought that, eventually, my weight would cause enough health issues to require addressing (mainly on my joints), and so are happy to have me losing weight, but it was the BP that it was most useful for.

Separately, there are early studies that show GLP1s, for reasons not entirely clear, seem to target the fat in your neck which causes apnea, meaning that even before you experience large weight loss that would typically be associated with controlling apnea, the GLP1s can do it. And that's exactly what I found... after only the first five or six pounds of weight loss my (albeit fairly mild) apnea seems to have gone away.

It's crazy...

The point of all this is that there are lots of health-related reasons for GLP1s, and it's definitely not just for people who are vain and buying into society's body image BS.[/quote]

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