Other Factors That May Affect Bowel Movement Colour Stool colour varies considerably based on numerous factors unrelated to GLP-1 therapy
Choline: An important ingredient that aids in the transportation of fat and cholesterol and keeps them from building up in the liver
If you stop taking a GLP-1 and then go back to the lifestyle (diet, exercise, sleep, etc) you had before, your weight will go back to what it was before
This precision-wellness approach helps your provider make dosing and monitoring decisions tailored to your unique biology rather than relying on population averages alone
However, a retrospective cohort study published in Diabetes Care did find that use of GLP-1 medications for 1-3 years was associated with a slightly increased risk of all thyroid cancer (adjusted hazard ratio 1.58) and medullary thyroid cancer specifically (adjusted hazard ratio 1.78)
Zhang D-W, Shao J, Lin J, Zhang N, Lu B-J, Lin S-C, et al