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The weight loss injection tirzepatide helped Melanie Ressa lose weight and overcome food noise, emotional eating, and mental health challenges. Her story, here.
PHOTO: Semaglutide (GLP-1) weight-loss drug Wegovy, made by pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is seen on Oct. 16, 2024. (James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)
Pyridoxal phosphate (PLP, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate, P5P), the active form of vitamin B 6, is a coenzyme in a variety of enzymatic reactions. The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has catalogued more than 140 PLP-dependent activities, corresponding to ~4% of all classified activities. [ 5 ]
Anti-obesity medication or weight loss medications are pharmacological agents that reduce or control excess body fat. These medications alter one of the fundamental processes of the human body , weight regulation, by: reducing appetite and consequently energy intake , increasing energy expenditure , redirecting nutrients from adipose to lean ...
Pyridoxine (PN) [4] is a form of vitamin B 6 found commonly in food and used as a dietary supplement.As a supplement it is used to treat and prevent pyridoxine deficiency, sideroblastic anaemia, pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy, certain metabolic disorders, side effects or complications of isoniazid use, and certain types of mushroom poisoning. [5]
There are positives to this effect—namely weight loss, but also potentially treating substance use and addiction, likely due to GLP-1s’ effect on the hypothalamus.
Medications like Wegovy are known as GLP-1 agonists, and many of these drugs were initially prescribed to help manage Type 2 diabetes but have since gained popularity to help patients manage weight.
Lorcaserin, marketed under the brand name Belviq, [4] [5] was a weight-loss drug developed by Arena Pharmaceuticals.It reduces appetite by activating serotonin receptor the 5-HT 2C receptor in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain which is known to control appetite. [6]