Weight rebounds quickly after stopping anti-obesity jabs


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GLP-1 receptor agonists, which form the recent popular weight-loss medications, make you feel full for longer, but the effect appears to wear off rather quickly once the drugs are stopped. — AFP

Doctors around the world have been hailing recent “miracle” medications that make weight loss far easier, but new research suggests that after a person stops taking some of these drugs, the weight tends to increase again rather quickly.

People who received these medications lost significant weight during the therapy, and this even continued to a small extent for a few weeks after stopping the drugs, according to a research team led by Dr Wu Han and Dr Yang Wenjia from the Peking University People’s Hospital in Beijing, China.

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