{"id":5222,"date":"2025-11-21T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/brain-scientists-are-seeking-weight-loss-drugs-without-the-nausea-shots\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:01:00","slug":"brain-scientists-are-seeking-weight-loss-drugs-without-the-nausea-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/brain-scientists-are-seeking-weight-loss-drugs-without-the-nausea-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain scientists are seeking weight-loss drugs without the nausea : Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Many people who take GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound for weight loss experience unpleasant side effects. Brain scientists are trying to find ways to avoid them.
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Millions of Americans have shed pounds with help from drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound.<\/p>\n

But people who take these drugs often experience unpleasant side effects.<\/p>\n

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“They lose weight, which is a positive thing,” says Warren Yacawych<\/u><\/a> of the University of Michigan, “but they experience such severe nausea and vomiting that patients stop treatment.”<\/p>\n

So at this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, Yacawych and other researchers held a session to describe their efforts to understand and solve the side-effect problem.<\/p>\n

The weight-loss products are called GLP-1 agonists<\/u><\/a>. They work by mimicking a hormone that reduces appetite and slows digestion.<\/p>\n

Yacawych and his colleagues wanted to know if they could tweak these drugs to suppress appetite without making people queasy.<\/p>\n