Archives: June 2006
Mon Jun 26, 2006
Going on Maintenance
When patients reach their ideal body weight or their personal goal-weight, whichever is higher, it's time to go on maintenance. The phentermine and supporting medicines should be stopped. If the phentermine is at 30 mg TWICE a day, it must be reduced to once a day for two weeks before discontinuiing completely. Patients on 45 mg a day or less can stop the phentermine abruptly without difficulty. If the supporting SSRI drug is a drug other than Prozac at a dose higher than the minimum, the SSRI drug should be tapered off, rather than stopped abruptly. More...
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Wed Jun 14, 2006
The Mendacity of the U.S. Press
Readers will know of my contempt for the U.S. press, for their lies during the phen-fen era leading to baseless lawsuits against physicians and dissuading obese people from taking phen-pro and physicians from prescribing it. Fenfluramine killed dozens of people in the U.S., but the word "fenfluramine" never passed Dan Rather's lips. The most we could get from him was to stop saying "the diet drug phen-fen" and say the "dangerous part of phen-fen" instead. Little help. More...
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Sat Jun 10, 2006
Phentermine Works By More Than Appetite-suppression, Part 2
I offered evidence that phentermine works by more than appetite suppression alone. Now I can offer more information. In mildly overweight people, such as me! when they take phentermine, there is an increase in free fatty acids (FFF) in the blood, indicating that fat tissue is breaking down fat stores. The effect is seen best in mildly overweight people because obese people already have elevated FFF. More...
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