As Blyumin put it, they were given limited use authorizations to compound these drugs that otherwise they shouldnt be able to, because theyre on patent. Now, those shortages have ended, and compounding pharmacies no longer have a legal basis for producing identical copies of GLP-1s
Historically, this led many researchers to believe that oral glutathione was essentially useless
Many prescribe other brands of semaglutide, such as Ozempic and Rybelsus, off-label (using a drug that is FDA-approved for a different reason)
Moreover, handgrip strength (HGS) is not a particularly sensitive measure for detecting changes related to training or lean mass loss after bariatric surgery, and the improvement reported here seems surprisingly large well beyond the typical measurement error observed when HGS is performed under standardized conditions
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