The number of young people starting eating disorder treatment is at a three-year high, while the number on the waiting list has risen by 12 per cent in just over a year
The exclusion criteria were: females who were pregnant or experiencing a menstrual period, type 2 diabetes treated using an insulin regimen, malignancy, hematopathy, active tuberculosis, peptic ulcer with gastric bleeding, binge-eating disorder, psychiatric disease, congestive heart failure, clinically relevant renal or hepatic insufficiency, unstable coronary artery disease, cancer or a history of cancer
So just because the shortage is over, it doesnt mean that access to these drugs will be more difficult or more expensive, Conti said
Note that it is critical to take a therapeutic level of the medication in order to see weight loss results, and we do not recommend stopping the medication for weeks before you reach your goal weight (another proposed definition of microdosing)
It should not replace them