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Medicines for Weight Loss
| Aspirin is FDA-approved only for headaches, but studies have proven how powerful it is for preventing heart attacks. Even though millions of physicians advise patients to take a daily aspirin to prevent a heart attack, the FDA has never approved it for this use. There are many medicines which were first invented to treat one condition and later found to be more effective for some other condition. |
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| More importantly, many medicines have side-effects which are actually desirable to specific patients. Wouldn't you be thrilled to find out that your blood pressure medicine decreased how many migraines you had? Or, better yet, that your birth-control-pill helped you lose weight? Smart physicians take advantage of "good side-effects." |
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| Specialists tend to know more than general practitioners about medicines which affect their area of specialty. For example, a cardiologist is more likely to know which medicines are good for the heart or harmful to the heart. Since Dr. Marlowe is a specialist in bariatric medicine, he frequently prescribes medications which have weight loss as a "good side-effect." Even more importantly, he helps you identify any medicines you are taking which cause weight gain as a bad side-effect, and he replaces them with medicines which are weight-neutral. |
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