hormone
Example Sentences
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Her first transfer date was postponed after a doctor said her uterus wasn’t ready, but she started hormone therapy to try again.
If you were stressed before you began this exercise, your heart rate probably slowed and stabilized as levels of cortisol and other stress hormones decreased in your blood.
From Los Angeles Times
Semaglutide is a GLP-1 drug, which works by mimicking a gut hormone to reduce appetite, make people feel full sooner when eating and slow the rate of food leaving the stomach for the intestine.
Some will get panels of blood tests that examine everything from hormone levels to thyroid and liver function.
They are new drugs - which mimic GLP-1, a natural hormone that regulates hunger - and the potential side effects from using them in the long term are only just beginning to emerge.
From BBC
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