Ozempic's Secret Weapon: What The Gila Monster Taught Us

What does Ozempic have to do with a venomous desert lizard that spends most of its life underground? This story starts at 3am with a unicorn saying the word chocolate fifteen times, and ends with the Gila monster, GLP-1, Ozempic, Wegovy and one tiny molecular difference that helped change modern medicine. Our bodies already make GLP-1. It works beautifully, then disappears in minutes. The Gila monster carries a remarkably similar molecule called exendin-4, except nature built this one differe...