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But heres where it gets interesting: the gut microbiome plays a direct and indirect role in regulating GLP-1 secretion

36 Endogenous GLP-1 has a short half-life (1-2 min), with only 10% reaching systemic circulation due to rapid degradation, which has driven the development of degradation-resistant GLP-1RAs