Your journey should always be phased: start with your GP, track your symptoms and lifestyle, and use targeted testing as a way to refine your plan
So we think of it really as a disease in which we have a treatment for it that we can hopefully put the individual control it and hopefully put them in remission but currently it only works if you take the medication
For most people, these effects were temporary, and their bodies adjusted over time
To reduce selection bias, initial screening was conducted by one reviewer, and full-text eligibility assessment by a second reviewer
I have always thought, along with other colleagues for a long time, that you can start identifying groups that have lived with obesity for a very long period of time and they would somehow present differently metabolically and so on, and it would give us an understanding of what treatments would be better for someone, let's say, with long-term obesity versus someone with short-term obesity
Common initial side effects include mild nausea, slight appetite reduction, and occasional gastrointestinal changes that typically resolve within 2-4 weeks as your body adapts