Food can raise your own GLP-1. It cannot copy Ozempic. In this episode of the College of Glycation, biomedical scientist and Professor of Cell Biology Paul Reynolds tests the “Nature’s Ozempic” claim against the actual physiology. Native GLP-1 is a brief meal-timing signal: Deacon and colleagues showed in 1995 that DPP-4 degrades the intact peptide within minutes, which is why weekly agonists are engineered to last about a week. A food-induced rise lasts through the postprandial window at a fraction of those concentrations. No seed, tea, or capsule closes that gap.

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