According to a poll by Found, an evidence-based weight care platform, 33% of respondents said they would like to have access to prescription weight loss medications to help them lose weight.
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There is a long history of stigma surrounding obesity and weight loss drugs. When diet and exercise don’t lead to effective weight loss, it’s sometimes our biology that’s holding us back. , talked about personalized weight loss and its benefits.
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Science shows that our biology can determine up to 70% of weight gain, loss, and maintenance. Various biological factors such as genetics, hormones and metabolic rate influence our body’s “set weight”. Your body fights hard to maintain this weight, either slowing down your metabolism further or amplifying hunger signals to try and get you back to the set weight. It takes a heavy toll, makes people feel shame, guilt, frustration, or judgment, and fails to address biology as a central issue.
Why Prescription Drugs for Weight Loss?
Obesity is a complex disease that affects 40% of the US population, and treating it requires an individualized approach to each individual’s biology. Prescription drugs can help people lose weight by fighting their biology. Weight loss drugs have different mechanisms of action, and your doctor should evaluate whether you are a good candidate for any of them. If it doesn’t work, it’s common for clinicians to recommend trying a different drug.
Historically, clinical care pathways for obesity management have been available only to patients at major academic medical centers and usually have long waiting lists. Found’s program addresses a clear gap in access to weight management. Today, he has only 1% of doctors who specialize in obesity medicine, even though more than 40% of Americans are obese. Found medicines are backed by clinical evidence that they are highly effective and safe as a weight loss aid.
Found found that members receiving medication and behavior modification support in the found program lost at least 13% more weight and in some cases up to 229% more weight than people receiving the same medication in clinical studies. is confirming.
Found is the nation’s largest online weight care clinic and has helped more than 160,000 Americans lose weight to date. Found offers 13 different medicines that can be combined to create over 60 different treatment paths. These medicines are available through prescription programs, each uniquely combined to address an individual’s biological and medical history. Found’s extensive pharmaceutical toolkit fundamentally helps us serve a wider audience than other products in this space.
Responsible Prescribing Practices
Found-affiliated care providers are trained in the Found Treatment Protocol, which examines a variety of factors to determine the safest and most effective medication for a member’s individual needs. As an off-label general combination when judged safe by the treating clinician. The prescribed medications are the same medications offered at major academic medical centers. Treatments through the Found platform expand access to obesity treatments by avoiding long waiting lists for appointments and out-of-pocket visits at in-person clinics. Found-related healthcare providers are expected to provide treatment and care in the patient’s best interest at all times.
For more information on Found’s weight care program, visit joinfound.com.
Biography of Dr. Rekha Kumar, MD, MS
Dr. Rekha Kumar is a recognized international leader in the field of obesity medicine. She is Head of Medical Her Affairs for Weight Care, her platform Found, and works as an endocrinologist at Academic Medical Center in New York City. She also served as a former medical director of the American College of Obesity Medicine. Dr. Kumar lectures internationally on the medical assessment and treatment of obesity. She has published several papers and textbook chapters in her field and serves as associate editor of the journal Her Obesity. She is frequently cited in the media on topics ranging from the diabetes epidemic in the United States, to fad diets, exercise trends, and discussions of the complications of Covid-19 in obese patients. Areas include clinical evaluation of patients with obesity and metabolic syndrome, effects of obesity on reproductive health and fertility, and thyroid disease.
Dr. Kumar received his Bachelor’s degree from Duke University and his Master’s degree in Physiology from Georgetown University. She went on to earn her M.D. at the New York Medical College, where she completed her training in internal medicine at Cornell Medical College/Presbyterian Hospital/Weill, New York. Dr. Kumar received clinical fellowships in the combined diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic programs of Weill-Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Kumar has traveled internationally to India, China and Tanzania to understand the range of metabolic diseases worldwide. She serves as an advisor to the Duke Global Health Institute. Dr. Kumar is board certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Obesity Medicine.
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