The FDA has approved multiple therapeutic classes for Crohn's disease management, with treatment selection based on disease severity, location, phenotype (inflammatory, stricturing, or penetrating), and prior treatment response
That helped me realize that restricting people from using GLP-1s can be just as limiting as diet culture itself
Over the past few years, GLP-1 medications have become a frequent topic of conversation around weight loss and weight management
urease-producing bacteria in the gut increase ammonia production, which contributes to hepatic encephalopathy, and migration of bacteria across the intestinal wall has been implicated in both spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and bleeding due to esophageal varices (Pereg 2011)
Novo Nordisk received approval for its Wegovy weight-loss pill in December, and its been on the market for a few months
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