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Many of the health benefits, including cardiovascular and kidney health, have been shown to go beyond or be unrelated to changes in body weight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKPaVhpomks

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Lower visceral fat as a percentage of body weight may bring benefits that are greater than proportional to total body mass lost.
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Nobody's denying this, but the interesting story about GLP-1s is that after you control for fat loss (for instance, by taking cohorts of patients that aren't losing weight) you still get evidence of these off-target effects.
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How much of “fat” also includes biofilmed infection stifling your electrical system and indeed signaling your immune system to not work as well?

(You can look this up regarding biofilms, I just did today.)

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