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This means GLP-1 is influencing much more than just blood sugarits interacting with reproductive organs too
In terms of getting cancer, theres a lower risk of developing different types of cancer, and getting any kind of cancer at all, a lower risk of all the cardiovascular diseases the researchers looked at, and most of the digestive diseases, except for reflux with sleeve gastrectomy, and higher or lower risk of kidney stones depending on procedure, but it generally seems to be kidney protective
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