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Hemoglobin is key for carrying oxygen in red blood cells
This may explain why medications produce a larger amount of weight loss compared to diet and lifestyle approaches Nevertheless, when you compare long-term risk for diseases like heart attacks, the Mediterranean diet lowers risk of cardiac events by 30 per cent, outperforming GLP-1 medications that lower risk by 20 per cent
Yet we are still unsure whether higher levels of IGF-1 in old age is good for our health
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However, Ozempic and related drugs have also been linked to intestinal blockages, pancreatitis, stomach paralysis, and other rare and severe side effects