With 1.5 million people in the UK now taking weight-loss medication, opinions are divided, are these drugs a vital tool for those struggling, or a worrying trend with unknown long-term effects?
00:00I view it more as sort of, I think the actual using of the drug itself isn't an issue in terms of health wise, I mean I don't really know the science, but I think in terms of the sort of psychology, I think a lot of sort of weight loss comes from that, it needs to come from the person itself.
00:15I think once they get to that point where they've lost that amount of weight, it's then sort of maintaining that, which I suppose only comes when you actually go through the process of losing weight yourself without medication.
00:24I can't even say I know anything other than what's on social media about Xenpic, which is the kind of look you get when you do it, where you borderline look unhealthy, and then maybe that it's not even weight loss that it talks about, it just like shrinks the size of your stomach.
00:37So you're not even eating enough anyway, it's not really weight loss, it sounds more like disordered eating, which is probably worse.
00:43I think the psychological effects of it can be quite dangerous potentially. So I think if you, obviously there's a lot of, you know, there's some people that can't lose weight just by themselves.
00:53But I think if you like, I think it's probably quite easy to get hooked on.
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