Originally developed for Type 2 diabetes, these medications have gained FDA approval for obesity, reducing risk for heart disease and kidney disease, and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea within the last three years
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"When I was more overweight than now, there was absolutely no way that I could do that." More precise diagnosis of specific forms of obesity is still a few years off, says Dr
A 2020 meta-analysis in Clinical Nutrition ESPEN (Asbaghi et al.) pooled 12 randomized controlled trials and found that oral berberine reduced body weight by 2.07 kg and BMI by 0.47 kg/m2 versus control