https://www.medpagetoday.com/endocr.../obesity/102894

The rebound effect. Wonder who this benefits when it's identified as a "lifelong" medication?

Drug company CEO's and shareholders?

Exactly, they're never invested in curing or resolving, so "lifelong" enables them to continue to print money.

Marty Kendall added a new article today on Weight Loss drugs. It was not as positive as he hoped but has comments at the end from members of the Optimising Nutrition community who have been able to use them successfully in conjunction with nutrient dense foods.

Weight Loss Drugs: Does Satiety Now Come in a Needle?
https://optimisingnutrition.com/wei...dle/#more-39405

Endocrinology stopped in the 1920s I swear.

I could write an app that could replace them now, they are so mechanistic.

That's what my husband calls the process of a doctor who doesn't even see the patient. The hand is writing prescriptions instead.

I totally believe that these folks could continue to have problems and need endocrine support. Their progress, as described in the article JEY linked, shows that hormones balance with the proper nutrition.

That's what I've been betting on during my autoimmune recovery. I'm trying to fix insulin, cortisol, cortisol resistance, thyroid, neurohormones like niacin, and protein for lots of raw neurotransmitter power.

Interventions can be beneficial. I'd like to see drugs go back to actually curing or at least helping instead of today's cascade of side effects to no real purpose.

The drug may curb their hunger and they may lose weight, but the fact that they gain it all back would indicate that they are eating the same old crap, just less of it while on the drug. To improve their HEALTH, they need to eat nutritious real food, which will satiate them at no extra cost, and learn to eat properly for life.

Even more cynical are those who are well off and not obese and/or don't have health risks due to weight and are taking this class of drugs to stay slim, for vanity. Also, I hear these drugs are very expensive with initial subsidies available to patients in need that won't last more than a few years let alone a lifetime. After researching and reading about behind-the-scenes actions of the pharmaceutical industry and drug approvals, my suspicions automatically ramp up nowadays with any newly approved drug. Especially when the pharmaceuticals are not required to share the adverse event data from their RCTs.

I've also been finding out that they do extremely low numbers of people in these tests, considering they then unleash it on a nation.