Considering taking a drug for weight loss?
This popular drug works by:
- Delaying gastric emptying – makes you feel full longer.
- Feeling satisfied, so less inclined to eat more, through stimulating a part of the brain.
- Vomiting! stimulated by this drug leaves you less inclined to eat more.
People ended up eating less in a day. They ate fewer meals, fewer snacks. They tended to eat more healthy foods. This could be why this drug was approved for weight loss.
Because it controls hunger, this drug works. You see this also in how nicotine from smoking tobacco reduces hunger.
Before you rush out to get a prescription, you should know that the drug trial showed that 89% of participants had side effects. And with so many more people using this drug, much severe, seemingly irreversible damage to the digestive system is being reported.
Learn more about the hormonal control of hunger in the blog Food, Stress and Sleep.
