Weight Loss Medications in Fairbanks

Decrease appetite/ produce early satiety – anorectic stimulant

Used for binge eating disorder (this medication decreases appetite)

• Phentermine: decrease appetite/ produce early satiety – anorectic stimulant
• Topiramate: thought to work on the brain receptors, which in turn reduce food intake/ decrease cravings. Works well on decrease of carbohydrate cravings
• Combination medication gives greater efficacy with fewer side effects

• Anti-Diabetic agent
• Decreases hepatic glucose production and decreases intestinal absorption of glucose
• Improves insulin sensitivity
• Can reduce appetite
• Changes the way the body uses and stores fat
• Used in patients with insulin resistance, prediabetes and diabetes
• Helps to decrease A1C

• Anti-Diabetic agent
• decreases inappropriate glucagon secretion and slows gastric emptying
• Improves insulin sensitivity
• Can reduce appetite
• Changes the way the body uses and stores fat
• Used in patients with diabetes type 2
• Helps to decrease A1C

• Acts in the areas of the brain involved in the regulation of appetite and caloric intake
• Helps to decrease caloric intake
• Increases glucose-dependent insulin secretion, decreases inappropriate glucagon secretion, increases B-cell growth/replication
• Helps to decrease insulin resistance
• Helps to decrease Hgb A1C
• Saxenda and Wegovy- FDA Approved for weight management
• Ozempic, Victoza and other GLP-1 receptor agonists- anti-diabetic agents