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The medication can also slow gastric emptying to help you feel fuller longer and curb food cravings and quiet "food noise" or obsessive thoughts about food
This includes individuals seeking modest weight loss for cosmetic rather than medical reasons, such as bridal weight loss or beach body preparation
To truly improve symptoms, we need to take a whole-person approach looking at both diet and mental health, not just the gut in isolation
The medication is absorbed in the stomach before bile plays any significant role, and its systemic effects do not depend on bile storage or release
The adjusted difference in mean lean soft tissue mass change (%) relative to total body weight between groups was 6.3 % (95% CI 4.1 to 8.5