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So does this somehow burn fat or does it just lower your appetite? There are many others drugs that lower appetite, and yet we still have an obesity crisis. Why
by Beaver117 4y ago
So does this somehow burn fat or does it just lower your appetite? There are many others drugs that lower appetite, and yet we still have an obesity crisis. Why would this one solve it?
- ceejayoz 4y ago> So does this somehow burn fat or does it just lower your appetite? The article's subheadline is "A class of drugs that quash hunger". > There are many others drugs that lower appetite Not this well and/or not this safely.
- EamonnMR 4y agoDoctors are reluctant to prescribe stimulants to their patients for various reasons. Also you don't keep the weight off with those.
- contravariant 4y agoYou don't necessarily need a stimulant, you can also e.g. short the mitochondria using DNP. Doing so does have some fairly predictable downsides.
- EamonnMR 4y agoHa! This made me think of DNP too-the rare drug that modifies the O of CICO. But you can't beat thermodynamics.
- acuozzo 4y ago> There are many others drugs that lower appetite, and yet we still have an obesity crisis. Which ones are prescribed in the US, on label, to treat obesity?
- jboy55 4y agoThere is only one class of drugs that lowers appetite outside of these GLP hormone drugs, those are stimulants like amphetamines. As someone on one of the GLP drugs for 3-4 months, and whose body tolerates it well, this is simply turning off the hunger switch. I will miss meals because I'm not hungry, since starting I have never felt "hangry" and I am satiated with small meals and do not feel hungry later. If I overeat, I will feel nauseous and sick. I do not feel wired, foggy or feel like my personality or sleep cycle has been affected in the slightest.
- ceejayoz 4y agoThere are others; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topiramate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topiramate is one. Nowhere near as effective, though.