Pharmacy/Medications

The licensed medical providers at Advance Weight Loss & Rejuvenation are able to prescribe medications developed by the drug industry to help you lose weight. Should any new medical breakthroughs occur, we will provide those medications when they become available. Unfortunately, no new medications have been developed in the past several years. The medications routinely used today were developed back in the fifties. These medications are relatively safe for most people, but they do have some side effects that may be dangerous to some. This is the case with most medications.

Phentermine
Phentermine is a drug similar to (with the same side effects) as Phendimetrazine. This medication was the safe half of the Phen/Fen combination. This medication is used to suppress the appetite. To be effective, these medications are used in an "Off Label" manner. That is, these drugs are supposed to be given for no more than 4-6 weeks. But it has been shown that taking such medications for a longer period of time will not have any injurious effects on most people.

Hydrochlorthiazide
This is a long-acting water pill with very few side effects. It may cause loss of potassium, thus taking potassium with the water pill is important.

Human Chrorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)
HCG has been used since the early fifties to help people lose weight. HCG does not cause weight loss. HCG is a naturally occurring substance in the human body produced by the placenta during pregnancy in very high amounts in both the mother and the child. The reason for this high production of hCG was poorly understood until Dr. A.T.W. Simeon, a British physician, studied its effects and developed a program of weight reduction. He postulated that during pregnancy, hCG allows the mother to convert fat into energy to sustain the pregnancy. Those who have taken HCG while dieting report that it is much easier for them to stay on the diet and they seem to lose inches rapidly from the primary fat stores, in particular, the belly, buttocks, and thighs. The only reported adverse side effects to this substance is breaking out in very few cases. There is no clearly defined scientific or clinical explanation as to why or how it works.