Its also a potential sign of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition that affects 70% of people with diabetes
When you lose weight quickly, with or without a GLP-1, your body perceives it as stress and starts shutting down processes that arent 100 percent critical for keeping you alive, such as hair growth, says Eric Nolen-Doerr, MD, an endocrinologist and weight-management specialist at Boston Medical Center
Differentiating late dumping syndrome from PGBH is difficult, as the line between the 2 processes is blurred
Diabetes drugs like Ozempic can often cause users to lose weight, but this particular medication has not been approved as a safe weight-loss treatment
Available data comes primarily from animal studies, where the peptide has generally shown a very favorable toxicity profile