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Life After Food? A Diabetes Drug Has Become an Off-Label Appetite Suppressant, Changing the Definition of Being Thin and What It Takes to Get There.
The Cut ^ | 2/28 | Matthew Schneier

Posted on 02/28/2023 3:32:48 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

I love listening to Jason Fung on YouTube.


21 posted on 02/28/2023 4:44:28 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: nickcarraway

This generations phen phen. Sides effects will eventually catch up to reality.


22 posted on 02/28/2023 4:52:12 PM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: nickcarraway

There are some drugs that cannot be dispensed without lab results


23 posted on 02/28/2023 5:06:02 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Chickensoup

By the doctor or the pharmacist?


24 posted on 02/28/2023 5:06:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Iirc labs were requested by MD then after results came in meds were requested by MD then the request and results were faxed to pharmacist.


25 posted on 02/28/2023 5:26:14 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Chickensoup

But the pharmacist gets copies of the actual medication?


26 posted on 02/28/2023 5:33:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: irishjuggler
I took a prescription amphetamine. Worked great and my house was REALLY clean.
27 posted on 02/28/2023 5:42:26 PM PST by Aria
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To: Vermont Lt

Great work


28 posted on 02/28/2023 5:42:42 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: nickcarraway

Ping for later


29 posted on 02/28/2023 5:59:39 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Vermont Lt

If it was as easy as you claim, friend, no one would be obese...

If you can stay thin this easily, count your blessings...

For quite a few of us, it is not so easy. Who would chose to be fat if being thin was easy? Who in their right mind would ever choose this?

I am “pre-diabetic”, so I’d probably have to go doctor-shopping to benefit from the potential of these new wonder drugs...


30 posted on 02/28/2023 6:03:41 PM PST by Horkster (Cho-Bai-Den - resident-inept)
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To: nickcarraway

“Doctors have wide latitude to prescribe drugs off label for anyone they think may medically benefit,”

Except for ivermectin.


31 posted on 02/28/2023 6:05:48 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Horkster

Respectfully, bullshit.

I have been too overweight for too long to believe that.

It is simple mathematics. You eat fewer calories than you burn. You loose weight.

People have no will power, and they rely too much on crappy food.

I have been a type II diabetic for almost a decade. This past year I’ve been able to reduce my meds by about 80%. Another six months and I should be free.

When you are sick of feeling like crap, you will examine what you eat and how active you are. Being obese is an addiction. You need to break it.

Sorry to sound cold and unfeeling. But it’s not complicated. It’s just really hard. It easier to have a bowl of chips out of habit than it is to go for a walk.


32 posted on 02/28/2023 7:42:40 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

It’s not just a matter of going for a walk. For a lot of people, weight loss means exercising two or three times a day—say, weights + running + swimming. Building muscle raises the metabolic rate and indirectly causes fat reduction. There have been times when I was doing all that and I still wasn’t losing weight. But eventually I got it straightened out and lost about 65 pounds. And I have kept off for 25 years. It does take discipline.


33 posted on 02/28/2023 10:24:00 PM PST by ottbmare (the OTTB mare)
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To: nickcarraway

The medication request and the labs yes.


34 posted on 03/01/2023 2:44:48 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: ottbmare

Yes.

We have gotten so used to a fad medication to help each little issue we have. God gave us our spirit, soul and body with our own choice what to do with it. He also gave us earth with plants and animals for our nutrition and healing.

I need to loose 12 pounds and have needed to do so for two decades. Two decades of age on my body (!!!) has begun to show that the extra weight is putting pressure on joints and the fat slowing me down..so I am trying to begin Lent with a newness of soul (mind, will and emotion) by filling my spirit with Jesus and beginning the outward change of my body.


35 posted on 03/01/2023 5:29:52 AM PST by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Interesting. I think this $1400/month drug is what the Covid.xyz vaxxxxed and boostered crowd can put their weight loss fail in.


36 posted on 03/01/2023 8:00:53 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: nickcarraway

An example would be
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clozapine


37 posted on 03/01/2023 9:48:40 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: nickcarraway

Thanks, I haven’t read that book, but I think I have seen a talk of his on youtube.

I’ve had periods of a year or two at a time when I follow a carbohydrates restricted diet and get plenty of exercise and that works very well. I get a1c results that are close to normal.

My problem is I love carbs, and do less well when I eat what I love.


38 posted on 03/01/2023 4:26:07 PM PST by CaptainMorgantown
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To: Vermont Lt

I pray for us both, fren. It sounds like we both have difficult journeys ahead of us.


39 posted on 03/03/2023 6:44:14 PM PST by Horkster (Cho-Bai-Den - resident-inept)
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To: Reddy

If only these drugs could get into the hands of obese patients without diabetes.


I wonder what % of obese people ARE/are not diabetic.


40 posted on 03/03/2023 6:53:57 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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