Lexaria to Evaluate Impact of DehydraTECH on Oral Performance of GLP-1 drugs used in products such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus, Alone or Together with DehydraTECH-CBD

ACCESSWIRE · Lexaria Bioscience Corp.

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DehydraTECH-powered GLP-1 drugs will be evaluated for potential improvements such as:

  • Reduced side effects;

  • Enhanced weight loss;

  • Improved health outcomes for diabetes and other conditions;

  • Improved oral bioavailability;

  • Reduced cost.

KELOWNA, BC / ACCESSWIRE / September 21, 2023 / Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (Nasdaq:LEXX) (Nasdaq:LEXXW) (the "Company" or "Lexaria"), a global innovator in drug delivery platforms announces its intention to launch new human and animal studies to examine DehydraTECH™-processed glucagon-like peptide-1 ("GLP-1") drugs such as, but not limited to, semaglutide sold under Novo Nordisk's brand names Ozempic®, Wegovy® and Rybelsus®, for purposes of improved bioavailability, cost-effectiveness, tolerability, weight loss potential, management of diabetes and other health conditions.

Through these studies, Lexaria hopes to achieve superior pharmacokinetic ("PK") performance using DehydraTECH-powered GLP-1 drugs which could enable drug delivery via oral capsule at lower costs than current injectables, with reduced side effects and enhanced health benefits.

This is a significant expansion of Lexaria's ongoing and planned diabetes study program to examine its patented DehydraTECH-CBD for diabetes control in humans. The Company now intends to evaluate this alongside and together with DehydraTECH-processed GLP-1 agents. Program design has already commenced, and initial study work will begin as soon as possible.

Lexaria has demonstrated in many previous R&D programs, including five human clinical studies, that DehydraTECH can greatly improve the PK performance of many orally administered drugs into the bloodstream, such as certain antiviral drugs, estradiol, PDE-5 Inhibitors, cannabinoids and more. Like many of these agents, GLP-1 drugs also exhibit low oral bioavailability without the use of absorption enhancement technology, such as Lexaria's DehydraTECH. Lexaria has also previously shown in animal studies that its patented DehydraTECH-CBD lowered body weight over a sustained dosing period by 7%, and also lowered blood sugar and triglyceride levels.

The Company has also demonstrated that specific customized DehydraTECH oral capsule formulations can achieve remarkable improvements in PK performance. For example, the particular DehydraTECH-CBD formulation that was used in its recently completed DIAB-A22-1 diabetes study demonstrated almost a 3-fold improvement in drug delivery into blood than the differentiated DehydraTECH-CBD formulation that was used in Lexaria's HYPER-H21-4 hypertension study that, itself, demonstrated significantly better PK performance and effectiveness than pharmaceutical-grade CBD industry comparators like Epidiolex®.

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