Emily Rickard, a research fellow at the University of Bath, said: Giveaways, countdown timers and raffles are classic pressure tactics designed to override caution, yet theyre being used to promote powerful, unlicensed injectable drugs
If the beyond-use date has passed, stop
As it stands right now, it seems that Ozempic / semaglutide is more powerful than berberine as a GLP-1 agonist, while berberine (when dosed well enough) can compete with metformin in terms of glycemia and lipids
Besides some surprising new benefits, this approach can also discover rarer negative effects of the new drugs that might not be evident in clinical trials with much smaller sample sizes
Despite this I feel well, eat the normal quantity of food and continue my regular lifestyle although I carry spare clothes and have to be prepared always to bolt to the nearest toilet at short notice