When he made the Nobel Prize-winning discovery in 1981 of a cure for river blindness, he persuaded his bosses at the drug company Merck to make it freely available in an unprecedented drug donation programme that successfully eradicated the disease in many countries and alleviated terrible human suffering
Protein intake is the cornerstone
The findings of a large US real-world cohort (n= 18,000) study, published in 2024, show that patients on tirzepatide were significantly more likely to achieve 5 %, 10 % and 15 % weight loss compared with semaglutide (HR 1.76, 2.54, 3.24, respectively), with a 12-month mean weight difference of -6.9% 8
Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) and alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (AKD) play pivotal roles in glycolysis and the Krebs cycle, respectively, since AKD, in the Krebs cycle, helps maintain neurotransmitter levels and supports protein synthesis (37, 39, 40)