The Metabolic Letter
Dr Bilal IftikharGlucose, weight, lipids, and GLP-1s — explained by a physician, twice a week, free.
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The first GLP-1 mistake can happen before the first dose.
By Bilal · The Metabolic Letter
A prescription can arrive with a remarkably simple public story: start treatment, feel less hungry, lose weight.
Real life asks more questions. What happens when eating becomes difficult? Who answers a conc...
Your healthy lunch may be the reason you are hunting for food at four.
By Dr Bilal The Metabolic Letter
It is four in the afternoon. Lunch was a salad. A respectable salad: leaves, cucumber, a few tomatoes, perhaps a small amount of chicken. You even skipped the bread.
Now you are opening the cupboard again,...
Retatrutide just hit 20.8% weight loss in people with diabetes. Here’s what I see as a physician.
The full Phase 3 TRIUMPH-2 results are out, and the headline is obvious: 20.8% average weight loss with the highest dose of retatrutide.
That is a major result. But if all we talk about is the 20.8%, we are going to miss the more interesti...
I cannot diagnose insulin resistance across the room. Neither can anyone else.
By Bilal · The Metabolic Letter
Picture two people waiting for a blood test. One is lean. The other has a larger waist. Before either result arrives, a social-media post has already decided which one has insulin resistance.
That is a conf...
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Dr Bilal Iftikhar, MBBS. The metabolic answers your 15-minute appointment never has time for. I write The Metabolic Letter: one real metabolic question, twice a week, free. No hype. No supplement pushing.
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