Peter Attia· MD
this is something I'm noticing a lot of old arguments that had kind of gone semi- dormant at least in the academic Community um over the years of well if you give people a drug for obesity doesn't teach them anything and therefore when you stop the drug the weight just comes back and this was said as a criticism as opposed to saying well who said it had to teach them anything who said that was the goal and for many drugs anti-seizure medications if you have seizures anti-hypertensives anti-diabetes drugs um Etc you're going to take those for the rest of your life if you're in the right class for that we don't say but the person with schizophrenia shouldn't get the drug because if we stop giving it to them the schizophrenia symptoms come back say no it's schizophrenia is a serious disease we need to give it to them with obesity this has come up again