GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Explained
What a GLP-1 receptor agonist is, why one gut hormone became the basis of every major weight loss drug, and how the newer ones differ.
Contributing writer
Eoin Hollis
Writes the explainers, starting from the position that most confusion about peptides is confusion about vocabulary. Prefers the boring definition to the interesting one.
What Peptides Actually Are
A peptide is a short chain of amino acids. That one definition covers insulin, several approved drugs, and most of what gets sold online.