Real-world data says otherwise
Patients natural figure was enhanced, showing slimmer waist, flattened stomach, and tightened skin
Nevertheless, we selected the controls so that about one-third of them had distress or adjustment symptoms as a result of lockdowns and social isolation to account for their confounding effects, which are also seen in Long COVID patients
The estrogen/progestin birth control pill greatly lowers testosterone and IGF-1 while replacing natural estrogen and progesterone with synthetic analogs, which can have negative effects in some women
Studies have shown that oxidative phosphorylation of glucose, along with electron transfer chain reactions used to generate energy, also produces substantial free radicals, which are further elevated in the aging brain (Yin et al., 2014
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