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Nausea is the most common, especially during dose escalations
Many of the popular diets make you feel like its your own lack of willpower, making weight loss unattainable
It mimics a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar and suppress appetite, and its given as a once-weekly injection under the skin
This serious, chronic, progressive and misunderstood disease requires long-term management to prevent the development of weight-related problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, and many others
The asterisk Like every drug, semaglutide comes with side effects and risks, including nausea, diarrhoea, constipation, dehydration, vomiting and headaches