GLP-1 Family of Peptides Explained
The GLP-1 family of peptides is a set of incretin-receptor agonists that has transformed the pharmacological treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity over the past two decades. The family is best understood not as a single drug class but as a layered architecture of receptor-engagement profiles: selective GLP-1 receptor agonists (exemplar: semaglutide), dual GIP…