But even with that long list of upsides, there's still one pesky side effect many struggle with while taking a GLP-1: muscle loss. Research shows that while these drugs can be highly effective for ...

Millions of Americans are currently taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic or Wegovy for weight loss. But along with the fat, many are quietly losing something else: muscle. Unlike fat, muscle doesn ...

Research intended to help people with muscle-wasting diseases could be about to launch a new era in performance-enhancing drugs. The research has produced several muscle-building drugs now being ...

GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) have finally started to make weight loss a sustainable reality for many people with obesity. The ceiling of obesity treatment hasn’t been reached yet, ...

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May) shows that following treatment with GLP-1 drugs for obesity, most weight loss is fat mass (80–85%) ...

A new drug called apitegromab could help people on obesity jabs avoid unwanted muscle decline that's been linked to flat bums or "Ozempic butt", according to research in Nature Medicine journal.