The drug , Semaglutide , is already out as a treatment for diabetes ….
Taken, it has shown to cause a loss of close to 15% of the patients body weight…So patient lost up to 20% of their body weight…
Those results far exceed the amount of weight loss observed in clinical trials of other obesity medications, experts said. The drug is a “game-changer,” said Dr. Robert F. Kushner, an obesity researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who led the study. “This is the start of a new era of effective treatments for obesity.”
Dr. Clifford Rosen of Maine Medical Center Research Institute, who was not involved in the trial, said, “I think it has a huge potential for weight loss.” Gastrointestinal symptoms among the participants were “really marginal — nothing like with weight loss drugs in the past,” added Dr. Rosen, an editor at the New England Journal of Medicine and a co-author of an editorial accompanying the study.
For decades, scientists have searched for ways to help growing numbers of people struggling with obesity. Five currently available anti-obesity drugs have side effects that limit their use. The most effective, phentermine, brings about a 7.5 percent weight loss, on average, and can be taken only for a short time. After it is stopped, even that amount of weight is regained…..
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The only issue is that the human body and brain tends to replenish weight that this drug or any drug cuts away….That might mean once you start with the weight loss drug…You may have to continue it forever….
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Thanks James. I am going to ask my doctor about this drug.
My father had diabetes, and I have been overweight (and often obese) for more than 20 years.
My doctor said this drug is expensive and might not be covered at all by insurance for weight loss.
He was not comfortable in prescribing this drug for me at this time. he felt that the fact that I don’t have diabetes is significant.
The indication is that once u start?
To keep the weight off u must keep taking it….
Does the doctor know about the weight loss effect?
It might be too soon to expect him/her to go ahead with this….
I’d say try again in 6 months…
Or switch doctors if u want to…