Obesity is a pandemic issue that will probably require new and innovative treatment options to really affect the problem. In this video, HealthMaker Daniel Kelly, MD, talks about two up and coming options.
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There are several new medications coming out they're just on the horizon that will reduce appetite. And so one approach in the future that we should look at are appetite-reducing medications. We need also if you will a one-two punch for this problem, which would be reducing appetite and increasing peripheral energy expenditure, if you will an exercise in a pill.
Daniel Kelly, MD, is senior vice president, Tavistock Distinguished Professor and scientific director of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona. He specializes in heart disease, metabolic Syndrome, obesity and diabetes.
