'Game-Changer' Drug Promotes Weight Loss Like No Medicine Ever Seen, Scientists Say

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | PETER DOCKRILL | 11 FEBRUARY 2021

[Red Badger]

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183

[BBQToadRibs2]

As a Medical Underwriter, I’ve also seen the rise of Metformin for weight loss over the last couple years.

[G Larry]

Thought I was safe at 67, 6'-1" & 180#.

Until heart scan revealed a calcium score of 279 (300 is moderately high risk).

So, cut the sugar by 75% and began a better exercise routine. (cardio beyond long walks, & back to the weights.)

[BipolarBob]

Was there any effect on libido? Asking for a friend.

[cdcdawg]

Big Pharma coming up with a solution to problems caused by their friends in Big Agra and government. What a surprise.

[ConservaTexan]

Weight loss is simple math. If you take in more calories than you burn you will gain weight. If you take in less calories than you burn, you will lose weight. Simplified: Eat less and get your butt off the couch!

[G Larry]

My point is, don't expect a pill to fix what's broken.

Statins are NOT a license to binge and sit on your butt. AND They have side effects that you don't want.

[qam1]

Let me guess, it will be available in 5 years, the same time there will also be a treatment for cancer & baldness, solar & wind will be competitive with Fossil fuels and flying cars will be common.

Always just 5 years away...

Then again, no need to wait five years, according to many threads here on Freerepublic all you have to do is just take some Vitamin D supplements. Vitamin D apparently treats and cures everything.

[Jane Long]

👍🏼

Vicious circle.

[Red Badger]

This drug is already on the market.......................

[Red Badger]

This drug is already on the market.......................

[Red Badger]

This drug is already on the market.......................

[qam1]

You will still have to wait 5 years until a doctor will prescribe it to you for weight loss.

[nikos1121]

I deal with weight loss. If I’m 200lbs a 14% would about 28 lbs.

So, after 68 weeks, they averaged about 15%.

Just about any wt loss program will guarantee you this much wt loss, in considerably less time.

The real weight loss, involves that next 15 to 30%, AND TO MAINTAIN IT.

[PLMerite]

“As a Medical Underwriter, I’ve also seen the rise of Metformin for weight loss over the last couple years.”

I’m on Metformin for Type II Diabetes, and I give it some credit for getting me back down to 175 lbs. Granted, it looked better on me at 25 than 60, but still pretty good.

[Uncle Miltie]

Can I get some more beer and chips with that?

[Pontiac]

Apparently there is an oral form of the drug.

https://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/38/1/109

[Joe 6-pack]

"Weight loss is simple math. If you take in more calories than you burn you will gain weight. If you take in less calories than you burn, you will lose weight. Simplified: Eat less and get your butt off the couch!"

Simple math is hard for lazy people. Yet another pill is much easier.

[Uncle Miltie]

Vitamin D is remarkable.

Far from a cure all.

But look at D and Cancer avoidance. Wow.

[alternatives?]

Everybody wants to fix everything with a pill.