Lexaria Bioscience announces body weight results from diabetes animal study

Lexaria Bioscience announces that it has received and can now report on 8-week body weight results from ongoing animal study WEIGHT-A24-1. This Study is the only study carried out anywhere in the world today, to evaluate the relative performance of liraglutide processed with DehydraTECH. In humans, semaglutide has been shown in other studies to be more than twice as effective at promoting weight loss as liraglutide. Thus, the continued outperformance of DehydraTECH-liraglutide compared to DehydraTECH-semaglutide is of particular interest. In this Study, the liraglutide in Study group H was administered orally even though it is injected when used by patients under the brand names Saxenda or Victoza. For context, in Lexaria’s diabetic animal study DIAB-A22-1 reported on March 2, 2023, the obese control group of animals that received no treatment, experienced 3.04% weight gain during the first 28 days of that study. DehydraTECH-CBD groups B and C are also outperforming all of the Rybelsus and semaglutide DehydraTECH composition groups regardless of whether the semaglutide has or has not been processed with the salcaprozate sodium technology known as “SNAC”. Lexaria is strongly encouraged by the robust performance achieved so far from its DehydraTECH-CBD. Readers are cautioned to not compare results of this animal study to human weight loss studies, primarily because unlimited food and water has been provided to the animals for the entire duration of this Study. Offered unlimited food, many rats will reach morbid obesity. The primary value in this Study is the relative performance of the different Study groups, which should provide directional evidence for additional future work. During the initial acclimation phase of 34 days before the beginning of dosing, the animals gained 10.9% body weight on average. Actual weight decreases or slower rates of weight gain have since been achieved in the 8 weeks of dosing in all Study groups receiving DehydraTECH drug therapies. The Study is ongoing and additional results are expected.