Sadly, another intervention pushed by Big Pharma. Selling you a future of unhealthy dependency.
If a doctor said "you can lose ~60lbs by taking a weekly shot OR you can lose ~60lbs by going to a therapist, talking with a dietician and visiting with a personal trainer weekly" which are most people going to choose? One sets you up for potential dependency and yo-yo'ing the other sets you up for the rest of your life. That's assuming their insurance would even cover all of those things on a regular basis.
There doesn't seem to be any money in the "ultimate weight loss therapy" and as of right now it seems like a long shot but eventually, maybe? Something has to be done about the current obesity epidemic so I'd say this is one step closer to some sort of solution.
This makes sense as in a normal body it's more akin to recharging the batteries so that you have energy on standby once your muscles burn through their glycogen stores.
But, body fat in obese people is more like a parasite than an energy store, and since our body never destroys the fats cells it has created, even losing the weight means carrying around a hungry parasite that will feed itself any excess that you consume and will make you want to consume excess all of the time since insulin disrupts the Ghrelin hormone that indicates satiety.
Its why you can put weight back on so much more quickly if you were previously fat than if you were trying to gain weight.
Any form of diet and exercise alone will not resolve this issue. The only thing we have for now is to use liposuction or RF modulation to kill or remove the excess fat cells from the body, surgically excising the parasite from you.
Then I tried it—- now I’m convinced this is a smarter, healthier path. Down 70 pounds, kept off for 3 years now. Even during lockdown.