When taken consistently, semaglutide helps users feel fuller for longer, making it easier to maintain a calorie deficit and achieve sustainable weight loss
While rare, its possible to experience pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), kidney problems (like kidney stones), acute gallbladder disease, and an increased risk of thyroid cancer
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We didnt know that GLP-1 would reduce heart attacks and strokes and improve metabolic liver disease and all of the things that GLP-1 does now. Today, millions of people have prescriptions for GLP-1 medications like Ozempic
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However, gene duplication would mean an increase in gene dosage, which would likely be deleterious as insulin release and glucose tolerance is sensitive to GLP-1 dosage 38,39