Why Use a Weight Loss Drug?

Many people, including doctors, have a strong aversion to using weight loss drugs to treat obesity, according to Holly Wyatt, MD, an endocrinologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The longstanding wisdom was that obesity resulted from a failure of willpower. If only people would just stop eating so much and get off the couch, no one would be obese. So why bother with drugs?

But that simple way of thinking is increasingly under fire from experts. It isn’t the whole story. Buy Qsymia 3.75/23mg Online Europe

“Lifestyle is a big factor in why people gain weight,” Wyatt tells WebMD. “But there’s a definitely a genetic and a physiologic reason, too. Because of differences in physiology, some people will just have a harder time losing and maintaining weight than others.”

George A. Bray, MD, professor of medicine at Louisiana State University, agrees that the traditional view of obesity — as essentially a moral failing — is wrong. Medications For Sale Online In Europe

“Are people who are massively overweight because they lack [the hormone] leptin ‘weak-willed’?” asks Bray. “No, and, in fact, some kind of neurochemical derangement probably underlies most obesity.”