Hi, I'm Dr. Craig Primack, and I'm bringing you this week's Medical Minute.
Contrave
To continue the conversation about weight loss, drugs, what we also call anti-obesity medications, that us physicians abbreviate as AOMs. This week we're going to talk about Contrave. Contrave has been on the market since 2015 and is that a unique combination of two different drugs.
Inside of it is Bupropion, Some of us also know it as Wellbutrin. It is a antidepressant that does help in of course anti-depression, but it also helps a little bit in weight. It's was combined with a medicine called naltrexone, which…
Hi and welcome to another Medical Minute.
Today, I'm going back to talk about anti-obesity medications or weight loss drugs.
Saxenda
The one I have the pleasure of talking about today is called Saxenda, a GLP-1 drug for chronic weight management.
Saxenda came out in 2015 and has been a really good drug for the patients that I've prescribed it for since then. It is Saxenda, a GLP-1 drug for Chronic Weight Management and a unique one. It is patterned after a hormone that you and I already have called GLP-1.
GLP-1, we have from our small intestine, a part called the ilium. In…