GLP-1 Medications and Their Uses GLP-1 medications mimic the natural actions of GLP-1 in your body (hence the name GLP-1 agonists)
Tirzepatide, a dual glucagon-like peptide-1 (GIP) and GLP-1RAs, administered once weekly at a 15 mg dose, resulted in an average weight loss of 20.9% over 72 weeks (Jastreboff et al., 2022), driven by its synergistic effects on appetite regulation, energy intake reduction, and fat mass decrease (Heise et al., 2023)
Rats heal differently, metabolize compounds differently, and are studied under controlled conditions that do not reflect the complexity of real human biology
This means that to convert your units to milligrams, like determining 70 units of semaglutide is how many mg, you simply multiply the number of units by 0.25