Like there is a lot that's out there that we're still sort of figuring out with this drug
According to Sarah McBane, PharmD, associate dean of pharmacy education at the University of California in Irvine, who specializes in womens health, the contraceptive warning specifically for tirzepatide may be because the medication is a dual agonist, meaning it acts on two gut hormones: glucagon-like peptide (GLP) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP)
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The change means it is a breach of section 43 of the Medicines Act 1981 to import and possess peptides that are prescription medicines
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But certain species produce potent toxic secondary metabolites called mycotoxins, and these compounds are in a different category entirely