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A New FDA-Approved Drug Claims To Help People Lose Weight


If the latest report is anything to be believed, then the FDA or Food and Drug Administration has currently approved a prescription drug that is meant to help people who are concerned with weight management and weight loss.

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Known as the Plenity, the drug has been designed and developed by Gelesis. It has been cleared that the drug will be helpful for the ones seeking solutions for overweight.

Incidentally, obese adults with at least 25 body mass indexes can get the best help of this drug. Even if you have no other health problems apart from weight loss, you can take the best help of this particular drug.

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As a matter of fact, this drug should be used in conjunction with exercise as well as diet. This is what the reports from FDA claim. It can also be taken alongside weight-loss medications or supplements.

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According to Dr. Caroline Apovian, a researcher of Plenity, this sweeping approval happens to be noteworthy.

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This weight management’s direct at Boston Medical Center also claims that this weight loss treatment will be available to the patients with 30 BMI or even above. Patients with other weight loss issues can also take the best help of this particular proscribed drug.

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Traditionally speaking, it has been difficult to get the ultimate solution of science-backed or non-surgical methods of reducing weight.

Hence, apart from this prescribed drug, the FDA has also approved five other prescription weight-loss drugs. According to the reports, the FDA has also warned consumers against getting products that are claimed to cause weight loss miracles.

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The previously approved drugs for weight loss issues work just by targeting the brain in suppressing the appetite or stimulating the feeling of fullness.

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This drug will help you in filling the stomach when taken right before your meal. The pill comes with a mix of citric acid and cellulose.

And when it is hydrated in the stomach, it expands and forms a hydrogel with chewed food’s consistency. It will help people in eating less, as far as what the company claims.

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