While HCG is an approved medication for other medical purposes, clinical studies have generally shown that any weight loss achieved on the HCG Diet is primarily due to the extreme caloric restriction rather than the hormone itself
Eating foods like Lifeway Kefir that provide calcium, vitamin D, and protein, plus powerful bioactive peptides and probiotics that assist with absorption, is one of the simplest things you can do to support your body if youre on a GLP-1 medication or other weight loss medication
Semaglutide is a peptide, and peptide medications are structurally delicate
The study authors noted that the medications show promise in improving alcohol use disorder (AUD), opioid use disorder (OUD), and tobacco use disorder by modulating neurobiological pathways underlying addictive behaviors, potentially reducing substance craving.1,2 Image credit: O.Farion | stock.adobe.com Early research in both animals and humans suggests that these treatments may help reduce alcohol and other substance use, Lorenzo Leggio, MD, PhD, of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, and lead study author, said in a news release