
Andres Acosta
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May 14, 2026
What Role Can GLP-1s Play in Healthy Aging?
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1:21Christina ChenHOST
To start, can you just break it down for us in simple terms, what are GLP-1 medications, and how do they work in the body?
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1:33Andres AcostaGUEST
So one of the signals that we send is a hormone called glucagon-like peptide, as you said, GLP-1.
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1:39Andres AcostaGUEST
We have other hormones, and what these hormones are doing are telling us, "Hey, slow down.
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1:44Andres AcostaGUEST
I need time to digest." And by doing that, it give us time to digest the food and absorb those nutrients, but at the same time makes us feel full, so we don't go and find another meal, and it slow down our gastric emptying.
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1:56Andres AcostaGUEST
So we know this role of GLP-1 and many other hormones for many years, decades.
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2:02Andres AcostaGUEST
But what's clever and was recently identified is that these GLP-1 hormones will also go to our pancreas and regulate our insulin secretion.
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