Schedule regular medical check-ups to monitor heart health, including echocardiograms, blood tests, and blood pressure measurements
Knowing our genetics can really help to fine-tune all aspects of our healthfrom which supplements to take, to which foods our bodies can utilize best, to what exercises can elicit the most bang for our buck
Limitations This is an observational study and is therefore limited to assessments of associations
(History + Background) IGF-1 DES , or Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 DES(1-3) , is a modified version of IGF-1 a powerful anabolic growth factor that plays a critical role in: Muscle growth Tissue repair Recovery Cellular regeneration It is essentially a truncated form of native IGF-1: 13 amino acids shorter than full-length IGF-1 Lacks the first three N-terminal amino acids (hence the name DES(1-3) ) This structural modification gives IGF-1 DES two unique properties: Greatly increased receptor binding affinity 10x more potent locally vs
Large cardiovascular outcome trials with liraglutide [40], semaglutide [41], and dulaglutide [42] have shown reductions in adverse cardiovascular events and cardiovascular mortality, while the SELECT trial demonstrated a reduction in heart failure with semaglutide [43]
