Cagrilintide: The Peptide That Makes You Forget About Food. I call it the silence between cravings. Cagrilintide is a long acting amylin analog which means it works alongside leptin and GLP 1 to Development of Cagrilintide, a Long Acting Amylin Analogue Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Once weekly cagrilintide for weight management in people with overweight and obesity: a multicentre, randomised, double blind, placebo controlled and active controlled, dose finding phase 2 trial The Lancet Cagrilintide is a long acting amylin analog that regulates appetite, gastric emptying, and glucagon secretion to treat obesity and related metabolic disorders. There are 2 pathways cagrilintide works: