Other four studies on glutathione include: topical cream application (30 healthy Filipinos by Watanabe et al.) oral capsules (60 medical students by Arjinpathana & Asawanonda), oral buccal lozenges (30 healthy women by Handog et al.) and intravenous (50 healthy Pakistani women by Zubair et al.) showed melanin index reduction and showed no significant adverse effects for the intravenous injection (liver dysfunction in 32-percent (eight) patients and anaphylactic shock in one patient)
Those numbers do not prove causation, but they move the question from idle anecdote to one worth studying mechanistically
Tesamorelin is an alternative GHRH analogue with different stabilisation chemistry, available as a standalone for comparative work
It is unknown whether SAXENDA causes thyroid C-cell tumors, including medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), in humans, as the human relevance of liraglutide-induced rodent thyroid C-cell tumors has not been determined [see Warnings and Precautions (5.1), Nonclinical Toxicology (13.1)]
Amylyxs targeting of the GLP-1 space follows the companys decision to pull its ALS drug Relyvrio off the shelves earlier this year and to axe around 70% of its workforce under a restructuring plan