Am I Hungry When I Eat?
Hi, I'm Dr. Craig Primack, and today I have a question, am I hungry when I eat?
One of the most important questions someone can ask is, "Do I eat when I'm hungry, or am I hungry when I'm eating?" I think it's a simple question, but it's really not a simple answer. Sometimes we are hungry when we eat, and we'll talk about that in the second half of this.
In the first half, we have to decide, am I really hungry? Or am I bored? Am I tired? lonely? Am I happy? Am I…
Welcome to another medical minute.
Today and for the next several weeks, I'm going to talk about a class of medicines called anti-obesity medications.
Anti-obesity medications are commonly used or referred to as weight loss drugs.
The one that we should always start the conversation with is Phentermine.
Phentermine has been out since 1959. Science and medicine back in the 1950s didn't know a lot about obesity or weight loss for that matter. They believed back then that you could lose weight and once you lost the weight, it'd be very easy to keep off. Well that wasn't true. We do not treat…