Weight-loss jabs may need to be taken for life, experts warn

Weight loss jabs may have to be used for many years if the long -term advantages for patients and the NHS must be made, experts said.

Medicines are sold under brand names like Mounjaro and Wegovy and work by reducing food desires.

Obese patients can currently be prescribed JAB on the NHS after being referred to specialized weight loss clinics, which are generally located in hospitals.

Hundreds of thousands of people also access the drug in private in pharmacies.

There were warnings to buy potentially dangerous jabs online from unregulated retailers and potentially miss the enveloping support.

Experts said JAB should not be considered the first weight loss option and should be used in conjunction with lifestyle changes, such as eating healthier and increasing the exercise.

Professor Graham Easton, a general practitioner who uses Jabs of weight loss himself, said: “I think it is a major problem on financing and appropriate resources not only GPS In surgeries but also the enveloping care that we have spoken of.

“I think the other problem is that so far, to my knowledge, the NHS and National Institute for Excellence of Health and Care Talked about what you take for something for two years, and this is probably linked to research studies.

“But as we have discussed, this is likely to be a lifetime commitment if it is worth the NHS.

“It is useless that most people take it for a few years and that the weight bounces.

“You can say that you are about to prepare for surgery or something, but in most cases it makes no sense.

“Then I think there is a big problem around access. Most obesities occur in poorer populations, as richer populations tend not to be so affected.

“There is a huge kind of socio-economic inequality and there is a concern for this conduct this inequality even more.

“Unless the NHS ensures that these are available in all areas as well, I think it is a major risk.”

Professor Easton said recent studies had shown that people who had stopped taking medication had put the weight they lost in about a year.

“It is often true for any diet, people said, and it is certainly my experience of having fought with my weight in food regimes over the years,” he said.

“All I would say that I found interesting of this review is that they may suggest that the weight returns even faster after being on GLP-1 drugs.

“Then, by speculating, because there was no way of knowing this review, it may be because people do not change the behaviors we are talking about as exercise and other lifestyle changes, simply relying on drugs.

“When you stop them, of course, you will give weight. The switch is removed or anything.

“I mean very similar, for example, in statins or arterial anti-press medicines, if you want life effects, you should keep them on life.”

Professor Easton was speaking during an event at the Cheltenham Science Festival discussing the growing use of weight loss drugs with the neurophysiologist of Dr. Simon Cork and an endocrinologist and obesity expert, Dr. Tony Goldstone.

Dr. Cork said that blows have an important role to play in weight loss, but are part of wider changes in food and lifestyle.

“I think we have to understand that the diet is still limited. People will tend to lose an average of about 5% of their body weight on a diet,” he said.

“But you are hungry, you are miserable, you are tired, your wife hates you because you are so grumpy, you are not going to continue with that.

“But we should absolutely look at our diet and change our diet and do something.”

Dr. Goldstone said that weight loss drugs had been used in the treatment of diabetes for more than a decade and had advantages of reducing the risk of developing other conditions.

“We are now in the third and fourth generation of these drugs, but the first generation of these drugs that we have been using for 15 years for diabetes,” he said.

“There is nothing concern that emerged. In fact, everything we see are advantages. I am not too worried that the longer term side effects came out.

“There is no real biological reason why there should be dangerous side effects in the way we know that these drugs work.

“The advantages of improving weight loss in diabetes help in themselves health and prevention of other diseases, such as cancer, heart attacks, renal failure and, even to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

“All these advantages, even if there was something that we had not really thought of that, I am emerging, I suspect that the damage of this is prevailing on the potential advantages of improving weight loss in the control of diabetes.”

Dr. Cork said no medicine was without side effects and that previous weight loss drugs failed because of them.

“There are side effects, there are side effects concerning that tend to be very rare, but you can then monitor these side effects,” he said.

“As long as you get the right care, as long as your general practitioner is aware that you take them, so these must be identified.

“If you find these side effects, you can stop taking the medication.”