a 2026 analysis of seven trials put the average lean-mass loss around 1.74 kilograms, though as a share of a now-smaller body, lean mass actually rises (Laverde, International Journal of Obesity, 2026)
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MET forms clusters at excitatory synapses in relatively mature cultured hippocampal neurons and co-localizes with the post-synaptic protein PSD-95 and with the glutamatergic N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunit GluN2B (Tyndall and Walikonis, 2006)
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