An oral semaglutide formulation exists but is technically laborious to administer, requiring food deprivation and specific post-administration water balance changes, and necessitates a separate control group.

“there is an oral semaglutide formulation that's taken daily submitted to us this year okay um the detailed protocol however is again technically very laborious each Mouse has to be food deprived for six hours then the material is administered and then they have to have a a a change in their water balance for the next 2 hours it is technically not an injection y but it is not any L laborious and in addition you have to have your own separate control group that gets all of those different manipulations with a sham injection”