The more common side effects are gastrointestinal, such as nausea and vomiting
On the weight-loss front, Ozempic basically signals to your brain to eat less and store less, while slowing down food movement through your stomach, helping with satiety, says Fatima Cody Stanford, MD an obesity medicine physician, scientist, and associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
However, it is not an effective treatment option for melasma or other post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation
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The drug, which Novo Nordisk calls simply the Wegovy pill, uses the same active ingredient - semaglutide - that powers the original Wegovy, along with its sister drug for diabetes, Ozempic
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