Mick is an optometrist and residency director at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, a clinical professor at UC Berkeley Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science and holds a volunteer faculty appointment at the UC San Francisco department of ophthalmology
These medications help enhance the effect that your natural hormones trigger when you eat, which includes helping to regulate your blood sugar, slowing down how fast your stomach empties, which keeps you feeling full longer, curbing your appetite, stopping food cravings, and helping to convert more calories to energy and store fewer calories as fat
Not all patients will experience them
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