GLP-1 Medications: What They Actually Do, and Why the Care Around Them Matters

Treatment · 1 · August 7, 2026

GLP-1 medicines are genuinely powerful — the STEP and SURMOUNT trials showed it. But a mail-order pen is not a programme. Here is the real science of how they work, the side effects and muscle-loss caveat, and why supervised, CGM-supported care changes the outcome.