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Published: Aug 19, 2025 Written by Klarity Editorial Team Published: Aug 19, 2025 Last updated: June 2, 2026 If youve recently started Ozempic, Wegovy, or another GLP-1 medication for weight management or diabetes, you may have experienced some discomfort at the injection site
It effectively stimulates GH release but it also raises cortisol (stress hormone), prolactin (reproductive hormone), and aldosterone (blood pressure regulator), and produces intense hunger (ghrelin-like appetite stimulation). For researchers, these off-target effects create experimental noise
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