After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Found to Unexpectedly Impact the Brain

andsoitis 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can highly recommend Metformin. I get mine from AgelessRX https://agelessrx.com/metformin/

orionblastar 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I take Metformin, which balances out my psych drug weight gain by burning fat. I stick to diet and exercise, which are also factors.

	▲	aitchnyu 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Will this help psych drug weight gain patients in general? Thinking of a fictional character who wasted years because nobody accepted her getting obese.

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reify 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The wonderful pharma industry.

They prescribe you a drug that does not cure mental illness, that you have to take your entire life, On top of that they make you obese, so you have to take another drug to help you lose weight.

Then the patient has to go through a long and arduous behavioural program to change their life style and eating habits, caused by the drugs in the first place,

The wonderful pharma industry.

High risk of weight gain anti-depressant drugs:

Amitriptyline, citalopram, clomipramine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nortriptyline, paroxetine, phenelzine.

I have seen this over many years in secure psychiatric wards, with those who take antipsychotics.

Drugs do not "cure" mental illnesses. There is no chemical imbalance.

The drugs are either; chemical coshes or highly advertised and ineffective placebo.

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ivell 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think there is any malicious intend when pharma produces those drugs.

The drugs are also effective in controlling some symptoms and enable people to go on with their life.

We had many centuries without those drugs, I don't think our ancestors had any better quality of life without those meds.

Psychiatric illness is complex and multiple techniques need to be employed to get some control over it.

If we are looking for a silver bullet, I agree there is none.

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lm28469 13 hours ago | parent [-]

They do pay a shit load of money to advertise them and push doctors to prescribe them so I'd say the malicious intent can definitely be at least argued about

	▲	ivell 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not too much different from how cola companies push their products. Though I agree that we should hold pharmaceutical companies to higher standards even in marketing and sales domains.