Many patients reach a plateau where weight stabilizes, representing a new equilibrium between medication effects, metabolic adaptation, and lifestyle factors
Children, pregnant women and nursing mothers should not use the product
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Individual variation is significant here
This suggests that future regulatory applications could push the approved dose ceiling higher for patients with severe obesity who need more aggressive intervention
But if you're taking it for weight loss, and it's not really an integral part of your health overall healthcare, you're doing it because you want to lose weight- I think there's that piece there, and that that particular drug is expensive. That said, he acknowledges the reality goes beyond a binary