TURNING THE TIDE Over the past century-plus, there has been a sea change in the American diet, which has shifted away from relying on high-lysine foods like seafood, meat soups and stews, potatoes, sourdough bread and dairy products to heavily emphasizing high-arginine foods like unfermented wheat, soybeans, peanuts, nuts, seeds (see Eschew the Seeds), chocolate and berries, along with added sugar
A 2023 study published in JAMA found that patients using GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight loss had a significantly higher risk of gastroparesis, pancreatitis, and bowel obstruction compared to those using other weight loss medications
These results suggest that L-carnitine supplementation could prevent lenvatinib-induced muscle toxicity without diminishing its antineoplastic activity, although further clinical studies are needed to validate these findings
Denny Galindo: It's amazing that they've come so far in such a short time