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I’m generally skeptical of pharmaceutical weight loss solutions as a bandaid over the underlying problem, but for this statement to mean anything you’d have to compare it to traditional methods of weight loss.

If you simply eat at a calorie deficit and aren’t taking specific steps to preserve muscle (resistance training and high protein), a lot of the weight you lose will be muscle mass.

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But the people most in need of the intervention are also the ones least likely to take those muscle-preserving steps.

And if you can get them to take those steps, the need for the drug decreases.