Did you know that Ozempic came from one of the most deadliest lizards?
FirstpostOzempic and its contemporaries are the new craze. But would you believe it when we say that these weight-loss drugs would be impossible without the influence of the Gila monster, one of the world’s most venomous lizards? But it appears that these ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs owe their existence to a lizard, namely the venomous Gila monster, which is native to the deserts of North America. Gila Monster and Ozempic At the end of the 20th Century, as obesity rates kept rising across the world, Dr Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, was searching for a hormone that could ape the appetite-suppressing and blood sugar-regulating effects of the human gut’s GLP-1 without breaking down too quickly in the body, reports Science Alert. Meet one of the world’s most deadliest lizard Gila monsters, scientifically known as Heloderma suspectum, have been named for the Gila River basin, situated in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, in which they are found.
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Did you know that Ozempic came from one of the most deadliest lizards?
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