Not yet investigated
What we have so far
The lizard's exendin-4 resists the enzyme that destroys human GLP-1 in two minutes. Every GLP-1 drug in a pen today descends from that one reptile peptide.
This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.