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The mother-of-three from Houston, Texas, started taking the GLP-1 medication Mounjaro in September 2022 after being diagnosed ...

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A multi-omic analysis of 108 women with obesity finds that visceral adipose tissue, altered bile acid levels, and reduced hepatic ABCG1 expression, rather than the gut microbiome, distinguish patients ...

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