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Digestive Support for GLP-1 Treatments: GLP-1 agonists frequently cause digestive side effects, with nausea occurring in 40% of cases, vomiting in 25%, and bowel disturbances in 23%, often leading to treatment discontinuation (Sun F et al., Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics , 2015)

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