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Symptoms typically diminish as gastrointestinal side effects resolve and patients establish adequate nutrition and hydration patterns

If you are in a dose escalation phase with persistent nausea, increase your baseline by 20-30% even if you are not actively vomiting, because reduced food and fluid intake from nausea creates a slow dehydration that builds over days

Jody Dushay, an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the new research

GLP-1 medications reduce hunger and food intake significantly, which can lower total protein, iron, zinc, and B-vitamin consumption if diet is not intentional

These effects are usually temporary and improve as the body adjusts

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