Mikhail Varshavski: “There's even been some promise for these medications in…”

“What the medication does is it slows the transport of food, which then alters your biochemistry to make you feel fuller, therefore not as hungry, therefore reducing that food noise. There's even been some promise for these medications in working for certain substance abuse disorders specifically focused with alcoholism. So this is a behavior modifying medication more than it is a metabolism modifying medication.” (1:04:53–1:05:02)

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