Oxidative stress accelerates kidney disease by promoting complications such as inflammation, hypertension, anemia, and atherosclerosis ultimately accelerating the progression to ESRD [11, 12]
Writing in Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, researchers explained how this could seriously affect intestinal function, increasing obstruction risk: 24 "Because GLP-1RAs could cause continuous increases in the intestinal length and villus height, the small intestine may become as inelastic and fibrotic as a loose spring, leading to long-term upper intestinal obstruction ..." To date, clinical trials havent revealed such changes in the human gut, likely because its difficult to measure small intestine length
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Investigating the Cause: Vitamin B12 or Contaminants
Semaglutide medications include Ozempic and Wegovy