GLP-1 medications can improve sleep quality indirectly through weight loss, particularly for patients with sleep apnea or obesity-related sleep disruption
Since theres often less food, we may see small bits of hard, dry stool that sometimes even resemble pellets, says Gutierrez
These symptoms can occur because GLP-1/GIP medications slow stomach emptying, which may trigger Mounjaro acid reflux in sensitive individuals
Although obesity is now recognized as an increasingly important cause of cancer in the United States and worldwide, no medications have been proven to lower the cancer risk associated with obesity, said lead researcher Lucas Mavromatis, a medical student at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City
When they prescribe it for another reason that has shown to be effective (like Ozempic for weight loss in a non-diabetic patient), it's called "off-label" use