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Margaret Cho Reveals Her Shocking Experience with Weight Loss Drugs and Eating Disorders During Interview in the United States
09 Jan 2026 09:18 GMT
… pills designed to remove fat from everything she ate.
The drug … she described as “orange” strongly suggests it was Orlistat, … a weight-loss medication that blocks … The comedian immediately quit the drug, disgusted by the experience …
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What Happens after You Quit Weight-Loss Drugs? A New Study Offers Some Clues
09 Jan 2026 05:09 GMT
… clinical trials on various weight-loss drugs, including older-generation GLP-1 medications … and those outside of the class, such as orlistat and … on average after they stopped treatment. All their cardiometabolic markers, including …
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Margaret Cho reveals horrific side effect from weight-loss drug
09 Jan 2026 02:05 GMT
… started taking all these weird drugs,'; the 57-year- … the pill was 'orange,' which points to the drug being Orlistat.
… quit taking the unnamed drug.
Cho famously suffered kidney failure … started taking all these weird drugs. There [were] also foods …
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Weight regain after stopping weight-loss drugs faster than after diet, study finds
08 Jan 2026 16:07 GMT
… cholesterol and triglycerides, improved during treatment but are estimated to return … years after medicinesare stopped.
'These medicines are transforming obesity treatment and …
The analysis included medicines from older drugs like orlistat to newer GLP-1 …
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New study finds that stopping weight-loss drugs is linked to faster regain than ending diet programmes
08 Jan 2026 12:45 GMT
… years after medicines stopped.
'These medicines are transforming obesity treatment and can … . The analysis included medicines from older drugs like orlistat to newer GLP-1 … studies were conducted in controlled trials rather than real-world clinical …
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Margaret Cho Once Pooped Herself Onstage After Taking Weight Loss Drug
08 Jan 2026 05:00 GMT
… medications. (While Cho did not disclose the medications she tried on Wednesday, Orlistat … is a drug commonly used … orange, and I think the pills that you took were orange …
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Mental Health Impact of GLP-1 Obesity Treatments Reviewed
06 Jan 2026 00:26 GMT
… primary outcomes in clinical trials evaluating obesity treatments. This leaves a … encompasses a diverse array of medications, including orlistat, bupropion/naltrexone, … associated with these drugs, reflecting variability in trial designs, patient …
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Study finds weight returns more quickly in GLP-1 users
08 Jan 2026 20:15 GMT
… , published in the British Medical Journal, which evaluated 37 … stopping obesity drugs.
It looked at older therapies like orlistat, which … .
Secondary benefits of the drug treatment, such as blood pressure … that weight regain after medication is common and is …
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Quitting weight-loss jabs like Ozempic and Mounjaro leads to rapid weight regain in 1.5 years, says new BMJ study
09 Jan 2026 10:36 GMT
… weight loss drugs — including older therapies such as liraglutide and orlistat — weighed … any other diabetes medicine. Questions about stopping the treatment have come up … , with the rest being extrapolated — doctors have been managing patients’ weights …
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Dr Tabinda Dugal highlights importance of healthy lifestyle in preventing diabetes
06 Jan 2026 23:43 GMT
… candidate, shows promising trial results with fewer dose … 2 inhibitor, has been FDA-approved for heart failure. … on the management and medical treatment options for obesity?
Obesity … with comorbidities. Options include orlistat, which modestly reduces weight …