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Many said they were hospitalized, needed gallbladder surgery, or suffered long-term stomach problems after using Ozempic or its higher-dose counterpart, Wegovy
Bioavailability by mouth is effectively zero
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Compared with chemically synthesized drugs, natural product-derived therapeutics offer significant advantages, including superior biocompatibility and functional diversity, attributes shaped by evolutionary optimization through long-term natural selection (Yao et al., 2017)
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