Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, Semaglutide, Tirzepatide - these drugs are everywhere in the media. They have helped a lot of people lose weight. My job is usually in involves helping people who want to lose weight and achieve other health goals without taking drugs. But emerging research shows that these drugs have many benefits in addition to weight loss... They also improve heart health--By improving cardiac output, muscle contractility, and blood flow to the heart and reducing the size of arterial plaques. Their main function is to increase insulin production, delay sugar release from the liver, and delay emptying of the stomach so that you feel full. But new evidence also shows that they may have a protective effect on nerves, and increase your feeling of fullness by direct action on the brain, independent of all the effects on the digestive tra ...