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Weight Gain Drugs and What You Need to Know

From antipsychotic medication to antidepressants and then steroids, every medicine causes a certain amount of weight gain. Why? Read our blog and find out.
Rayomand S. Engineer
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Rayomand S. Engineer
Weight Gain Drugs and What You Need to Know

Introduction

Whether you’ve been prescribed antipsychotic medication, antidepressants or steroids, each causes a marginal amount of weight gain. It is the age of advertising, and the only way to sell something to you is by showing that what you have is not the best. Despite all the cries for body positivity, both weight gain and weight loss drug makers are making billions in the market. Telling the obese that they need to lose weight and telling the thin that they need to gain weight can be made into a modern rendition of the Sisyphus myth where a man is continuously either gaining or losing weight.

Weight gain drugs are often marketed to the lean and skinny as the one-stop solution to their long-persisting problems like lack of muscles, job, house, success, and a guy bullied for being underweight becomes the CEO of a company by night just by gaining a few pounds here and there. You would love to see it, but is there any truth to the claims? Why do people consume them? Let’s dive a bit, and we’ll all be wiser on the other side.