“People microdosing and taking GLP-1s willy-nilly are playing with fire”
Dr Federica Amati
“We’ve had case studies of things like scurvy, psychotic episodes and people checking into hospital thinking that they were developing dementia or psychosis,” she says. What was actually going on, she continues, was acute malnutrition of the brain. “If you’re taking GLP-1s for cosmetic reasons, you’re putting yourself at real risk of chronic under-nutrition,” she says. “You’re missing key micronutrients and if you chronically underfeed your brain, you could even have psychotic-like episodes.” And that’s not to mention the other possible effects, including loss of skeletal muscle…
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