Educational only; not medical advice
These pages explain evidence and laboratory limits. They do not offer access, dosing, or prescribing advice. Hemexa does not prescribe or supply these medicines.
Part of the Hemexa guides. Educational only; not medical advice.
Testing guide
What blood tests can and cannot show for people using or considering GLP-1 and GIP medicines in Australia: the four separate jobs testing does, why no universal monitoring panel exists, and which safety questions bloodwork does not answer.
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Retatrutide is not approved by any medicines regulator anywhere. What the TGA has actually said, which trial results are peer reviewed and which are company announcements, and why trial measurements are not a personal monitoring plan.
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Survodutide is not approved anywhere, including Australia. What its published phase 3 obesity and liver trials measured, why the widely quoted weight-loss figure differs from the published one, and what no blood test can establish.
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