These drugs will become extremely popular as they are sort of short cuts for weight loss but the full impact needs to be evaluated by doctors who need to prescribe these drugs only as a medicine and not a cosmetic makeover
From the moment a drug is placed on formulary to the moment a rebate check arrives, there are multiple handoffsand multiple points where value can be redirected
Neuwelt E, Abbott NJ, Abrey L, Banks WA, Blakley B, Davis T, Engelhardt B, Grammas P, Nedergaard M, Nutt J, Pardridge W, Rosenberg GA, Smith Q, Drewes LR
PubMed PMID 9849822) demonstrated that ipamorelin at 125 nmol/kg produced GH peaks equivalent to GHRP-6 while generating no statistically significant rise in cortisol or prolactin, a distinction absent from earlier peptides