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Liraglutide Foods to Avoid and Why They Trigger Nausea

Liraglutide foods to avoid: what to eat, what to limit, and why it matters on a GLP-1 medicine.

Active ingredient
liraglutide
Liraglutide foods to avoid: a high-protein plate on a GLP-1

Saxenda in brief

How long it stays in your body
100%50%25%0%013 h26 h39 h2.2 d2.7 d50%25%12.5%time after the dose

Its half-life runs about 13 hours: by 13 h half of it has gone, and after five half-lives (2.7 d) about 3% remains.

How much weight came off in its main trial
Saxenda (SCALE Obesity and Prediabetes)7.4%Placebo3%

In SCALE Obesity and Prediabetes, 56 weeks, the result was 7.4% of body weight, compared with 3% on placebo.

Sources: FDA label (DailyMed).