Diet drug rimonabant (Acomplia / Zimulti), in addition to promoting weight loss by blocking the body’s CB-1 receptors, may also block a receptor in the brain called TRPV1, possibly explaining why the diet pill produces depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in some patients, according to researchers. Rimonabant is a CB-1 receptor antagonist that reduces appetite by blocking the body’s cannebinoid receptors.

Rimonabant is widely available outside the United States, including in Eurolpe, but Sanofi Aventis pulled it back from consideration by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last summer after an agency advisory panel unanimously expressed concern over the drug’s psychiatric side-effects.

Now, in a study published in the March 13 issue of the journal Neuron, researcher Julie Kauer of Brown University and her colleagues report that the TRPV1 receptor — a pain receptor that is central to learning and memory — may also be blocked by large doses of rimonabant.

“It’s possible that when the patient takes the drug, and the dose range is correct, it may not affect TRPV1 at all,” Kauer said. “However, in some patients, Acomplia could be hitting TRPV1 and may well have an effect on activating this receptor.”

In experiments with rat brains, Kauer and her fellow researchers found that TRPV1 controls a brain mechanism called long-term depression, which may relate to the psychiatric side effects seen with Acomplia.

“A large percentage of patients stop taking this drug as a result of psychiatric side effects, and our findings suggest the possibility that some of the central effects of [Acomplia] result from the antagonism of TRPV1 receptors …,” the researchers conclude.

Diet Drug Acomplia (Rimonabant) Still Seen as a Winner by Sanofi

Sanofi-Aventis said on April 3rd it still has high hopes for diet drug rimonabant (Acomplia / Zimulti), even though it was rejected by a U.S. FDA advisory panel last year and recent clinical trial news has been less than wildly encouraging. Marc Cluzel, Sanofi’s head of research, said in a round of interviews in London that he continues to believe Acomplia can be a winner.

Acomplia, which was to have been marketed in the United States as Zimulti, was withdrawn from FDA consideration last June after an expert panel unanimously recommended against approval out of concern over depressive and suicidal side-effects.

Data from a new clinical trial of possible use of Acomplia in slowing progression of coronary artery disease was reported this week along with news that 43.4 percent of patients who got rimonabant in this trial suffered psychiatric side effects such as anxiety and depression.

While the results of the heart trial were ambiguous at best, Cluzel put a positive face on it — and reiterated that Sanofi intends to resubmit rimonabant to the FDA and regulators worldwide in 2009 for approval as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.

He noted that the Acomplia development program — involving clinical trials for a variety of conditions in addition to obesity — is only one-third completed.

“It’s very difficult before 2011 to know exactly what will be the full benefits of the product,” Cluzel told the news agency Reuters.

Another Sanofi executive, Belen Garijo, also expressed confidence that sales of Acomplia — which have been disappointing to date — will grow in Europe and other countries where it is on the market.

“We are very confident that Acomplia will grow in Europe,” Garijo told Reuters, noting that it is being reimbursed by insurance in a growing number of markets

Have a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more — about 100 pounds overweight for men, and 80 for women.

Have a lower BMI (35 to 40) but also have serious health problems related to obesity — heart disease, type 2 diabetes, or severe sleep apnea.
Have tried and failed to lose weight by nonsurgical means, such as diets.
Fully understand the risks and are motivated.
How will weight loss surgery help me lose weight?
There are two basic types of weight loss surgery — restrictive surgeries and malabsorptive surgeries. Each helps with weight loss in different ways.

Restrictive surgeries (like adjustable gastric banding) work by physically restricting the stomach’s size, limiting the amount of solid food you can eat. Before the surgery, a normal stomach can hold about three pints of food. After surgery, the stomach may at first hold one ounce — although that may later stretch to two or three ounces. You eat less when your stomach is smaller.
Malabsorptive surgeries (like gastric bypass) work by changing the way your digestive system absorbs food. This type of weight loss surgery is more complicated. The surgeon removes parts of your digestive tract, creating a shortcut for the food to be digested. This means that fewer calories get absorbed into the body. The combined malabsorptive/restrictive surgery also creates a smaller stomach pouch, which restricts the amount of food you can eat.

What are the pros and cons of these surgeries?
Gastric Banding Surgery

The Pros:

Gastric banding is often a minimally invasive surgery — performed with small incisions, a laparoscope (a tiny camera), and special instruments.
There is no need to cut into the stomach or intestine, and recovery is usually faster than with gastric bypass surgery.
The surgery can be reversed by surgically removing the band.
Tightening the band further restricts stomach size, to increase weight loss. The band can be tightened or loosened in the health professional’s office. To tighten the band, saline solution is injected into the band. To loosen it, the liquid is removed with a needle.
The adjustable band allows a nutritionist to address nutritional issues that may occur after surgery.
Serious complications are uncommon. But gastric bands can slip out of place, become too loose, or leak. Surgery is needed to correct this.
The Cons:

Your weight loss may be less dramatic than with gastric bypass. The average is to lose 21% of your weight after one year, and 47% of your weight after two years.
You may regain some of the weight over the years. Ten years after surgery the average weight loss is about 13%.
What are the pros and cons of these surgeries? continued…
Gastric Bypass Surgery The Pros:

Weight loss is quick and dramatic. People lose an average of 38% of their body weight in the first year, and 62% in two years.
Because weight loss is quick, quality of life — and related health problems — improve quickly. That includes diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis, sleep apnea, and heartburn.
Many people keep most of the weight off for 10 years or longer. After 10 years the average weight loss is 25%.
Loss of stomach tissue results in a drop in the so-called “hunger hormone” Ghrelin, which helps control appetite.
The Cons:

Gastric bypass surgery is riskier and results in more complications. Although the surgery is generally safe, 10% of people have minor complications. Less than 5% have serious (potentially life-threatening) complications. The risk of death is under 1%.
The surgery may result in dumping syndrome, which occurs when food moves too quickly through the stomach and intestines. Dumping syndrome can cause shaking, sweating, dizziness, and severe diarrhea.
Gastric bypass is irreversible. The surgery permanently changes how your body digests food.
What are typical risks after weight loss surgery?
Vomiting may result from eating too much too quickly — and not chewing well.
Constipation is a common problem. Mineral oil and other liquid cathartics can help. High-fiber Metamucil and psyllium can cause obstructions, and should be avoided.
Nutritional deficiencies, such as anemia, osteoporosis, and metabolic bone disease, may develop after weight loss surgery.
As with any surgery, wound infections can occur up to three weeks after surgery. These can be treated with antibiotics, and sometimes require further surgery.
Complications that may develop:

Hernia
Gallstones
Ulcerations
Gastric prolapse
Severe scarring of the new stomach pouch
Excess skin that may need to be removed in an additional surgery
Rare but serious complications include:

Bleeding in the stool, or black stools.
Leaks in new connections made by weight loss surgery. These usually occur within five days of surgery.
Blood clots in the lungs, called pulmonary emboli, occur less than 1% of the time. They are the most common cause of death after weight loss surgery. Blood clots can be prevented with blood thinning drugs and frequent activity.
How much weight will I lose?
After gastric bypass surgery, people generally lose 61% of excess weight. One long-term follow-up study found that 25% of the excess weight remained off 10 years later.
After gastric banding, people lose on average 47% of their excess weight. About 13% of it remained off 10 years later, according to the long-term study.
How does weight loss surgery affect overall health?
Obesity-related medical problems will generally improve after weight loss surgery. These include:

Obstructive sleep apnea
Diabetes (type 2)
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
High cholesterol
Degenerative joint disease or orthopaedic problems
High blood pressure
How does weight loss surgery affect nutrition?
After surgery, the body has difficulty absorbing certain important nutrients, including: Iron
Vitamin B-12
Folate
Calcium
Vitamin D
However, taking a daily multivitamin, plus other supplements, can prevent or reduce these deficiencies.

What lifestyle changes are necessary?
Over time, some people regain weight despite the surgery. Some eat high-calorie or high-fat foods, instead of healthy foods — and eat them too often. Some people rely on “soft meals” (such as ice cream, milk shakes).

The body itself may change over time, too, leading to weight gain. The digestive tract might begin absorbing more calories. Even the size of your surgical stomach can expand gradually over time.

To keep the weight off, you need to work at it:

Eat very small meals. Adapting to small meals is challenging, but necessary. Eat small amounts slowly, chew well, and eat lots of protein.
Make nutrition a priority. You must make the foods you eat count. Good nutrition is critically important. You must also take supplements, as serious malnutrition occurs easily. A dietitian can create a diet and nutrition plan so you avoid nutrition problems.
Exercise regularly.Many obese people aren’t used to exercise — but it’s the only way to prevent weight regain. The good news: Once you start losing weight, exercise will get easier.
How will my physical appearance change after surgery?
As they start losing weight, people are typically thrilled in their new appearance. The only downside: As the body shrinks in size, the skin doesn’t shrink as much. It may start to look loose and baggy. You may want plastic surgery to remove this excess skin.

Will my social life — my relationships — change?
Your relationships with friends and family may indeed change. For many people, food and drink are the basis for socializing. After weight loss surgery, you must find other ways to socialize — ways that aren’t focused on food.

Also, as you lose weight, the results will be obvious. People will notice, and ask you about your appearance. Prepare for these questions ahead of time — and consider how you want to handle these questions.

Will I feel like myself after I lose the weight?
Losing significant weight is no small matter. In fact, the effects are profound and far-reaching. Life may seem disconcerting at times. You may feel odd, not quite like yourself. You may feel overwhelmed by the lifestyle changes you must make for the rest of your life. You may have reached for food as comfort — and have difficulty giving it up.

A therapist can help you get through this complicated period. A support group can also help. Ask your health professional about support groups for people who have had weight loss surgery. It helps to meet people who are making the same adjustments you’re making — and can help keep you on track with your weight loss program.
What is the cost of weight loss surgery? Does insurance cover it?
A typical weight loss surgery can run from $20,000 to $35,000 — so insurance coverage is critical for most people. Before agreeing to cover the surgery, insurance companies want documentation of the patient’s struggle with obesity. They want a primary care health professional’s records indicating that the patient has tried to lose weight through diet, exercise, and psychological counseling — for at least five years. It pays to ensure that your health professional documents your efforts early on, so surgery is an option later. How can I find a top bariatric surgeon?
Clearly, you want a surgeon who is very experienced in this specialty area. Research shows that the more experienced the surgeon, the lower the risk of death or complications during or after the surgery.

To identify an excellent surgeon, collect a list of names. Ask friends and family members. Ask at your church, your office. You might be surprised — lots of people often know others who have had the surgery, and want to share their health professional’s name.

Check into centers and hospitals offering educational seminars for people considering weight loss surgery. You can learn more about the actual procedure, the benefits and the risks. You may also get names of specialists who perform these surgeries.

In your first meeting with the surgeon, ask:

Is the specialist board certified by the American Board of Surgery?
Is the specialist a member of the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons?
How many weight loss surgeries has the surgeon performed? (100 or more is ideal.)
How many of the surgeon’s patients have died from weight loss surgery? (Less than 1% is the average.)
How often do patients have complications? What side effects are most common?
What is the surgeon’s success rate?
Don’t rush into weight loss surgery. Most people take two years to think about it. Talk to family and friends. Talk to surgeons and to people at the hospital centers. Prepare yourself mentally and physically. Make sure you are committed to changing your lifestyle — and to keeping the weight off — to ensure a healthier life.
 

Acomplia has been proven very safe, both through clinical trials, and by the thousands of user reports. There may be some side effects experienced, but these side effects are usually mild to moderate. Some side effects that are sometimes experienced are nausea, insomnia, anxiousness, and muscle cramping.
These side effects will usually present in the initial period of treatment, as your body is getting accustomed to the new drug, and should reduce in severity over time. Any side effects that do present will almost always disappear completely over time.
If you do not experience a reduction in the incidence of side effects, you should contact your health professional, to discuss possible treatment modification. If you ever experience severe side effects, you should seek immediate and emergency medical attention.
Acomplia is a very safe drug, but you should always consult with a health professional prior to beginning any prescription drug treatment.

Who should not take Acomplia?
Some people, such as type two diabetics, pregnant women, nursing mothers and heart disease patients, may not be able to take this drug, and if you have one of these conditions make sure that your health professional is aware of it.
It is also a good idea to make your health professional aware of any other prescription drugs that you may be taking.

Where can you buy Acomplia?
You can buy Acomplia either at a traditional retail pharmacy, or through a licensed online pharmacy. An online pharmacy may offer a more competitive price than a retail or storefront pharmacy.

Points to consider
If you are obese, you should not wait any longer before doing something to try and lose your excess weight. Every additional day you spend as an obese person increases your risk for a number of serious medical conditions.
Acomplia may be the right solution for you. If you feel that you cannot lose weight on your own, then the appetite suppression effects of Acomplia may be the tool you need to really start to lose weight. Acomplia is not at all like previous generation diet pills, and is a safe, FDA regulated, prescription drug; that has been clinically proven to offer substantial weight loss to people undergoing therapeutic Acomplia treatment.
Acomplia might be the tool you need to start looking better, feeling better, and getting healthier.

Overeating and smoking can overstimulate this system, which in turn propels them to eat and smoke still more. By temporarily blocking the body’s ability to receive these signals, experts believe they can return the system’s working to normal.In the larger of the two studies, Dr. Jean-Pierre Despres of Laval University in Quebec City enrolled 1,036 overweight volunteers, all with big potbellies that put them at especially high risk of heart problems. They were urged to cut 600 calories a day and randomly given either Rimonabant Acomplia or dummy pills.After a year, those who got the higher of two doses of Rimonabant Acomplia had lost an average of 20 pounds and trimmed three inches from their waistlines. Nearly half of them took off 10 percent of their body weight. By comparison, those on placebos lost just five pounds.Those getting Rimonabant Acomplia improved in other ways, too. Their levels of HDL, the protective good cholesterol, rose 23 percent, while their triglycerides fell 15 percent.Despres said people taking the drug simply felt less hungry. In an earlier phase of the research, he could tell which volunteers were on the medicine by watching who passed up chocolate cake at the buffet table.

“The bottom line is we found a spectacular drop in waistlines and changes in many other risk factors that are beyond what you would ordinarily expect,” Despres said.Anthenelli’s study tested the drug for 10 weeks on 787 pack-a-day smokers who wanted to quit but could not. A longer follow-up will see how well they stay off, but in the short run, 28 percent shunned cigarettes for at least a month, compared with 16 percent on dummy pills.Especially important, Anthenelli said, is that those on the drug gained little or no weight, and a third of the successful quitters actually took off pounds at the same time. Ordinarily, smokers gain six to 10 pounds when they quit.Some people had minor digestive side effects at first, but they usually went away.

The mythology of the drug has become a living story. And regardless of whether or not the story is true, it is a seductive story. Perhaps you’ve heard it yourself. The story goes something like this:

If you take this drug, Acomplia, you will automatically eat less because your hunger will be turned off. And when you start losing weight, the first place you will lose body fat is your mid-section. The pounds will just melt away. And better yet, your cholesterol will go down and your blood pressure will return to healthy levels.But that’s not all. The drug, miraculously, will also help you stop smoking. And if you’re addicted to alcohol, it is also said you will stop drinking! But why stop there? The mythology is so seductive that we might as well add more things to the story. Maybe the drug will repair your broken relationships with family members, spouses, and co-workers. Perhaps the drug will quadruple the balance in your bank account. Maybe the drug will even improve your appearance or add ten pounds of lean muscle mass to your body each and every year, without working out at all! I mean, why not? If the drug is going to do all these other things, let’s just make the story even more seductive.

This is the mythology surrounding Acomplia. And of course, there is nothing in the mythology that is true. In fact, there is not a single clinical trial proving a single one of these suggestions. The drug hasn’t been shown to result in permanent weight loss, lower cholesterol, reduce smoking addiction, or help people stop drinking alcohol. None of these things have been demonstrated with the drug.So why is Acomplia so remarkably popular even before it has been approved by the FDA? The reason it’s popular has nothing whatsoever to do with science or nutrition or health. It has to do with the seductive idea that we as Americans can pursue whatever lifestyles we want and yet have never have to face the consequences for making such decisions.

The mythology says that we can eat all the junk foods we want, avoid physical exercise, avoid having to quit the cigarette habit, continue binge drinking, and yet somehow this magic pill will release us from the natural consequences of all those actions.The seduction of Acomplia is that it takes over our responsibilities. It allows us to shift control of our lives from our own conscious intentions to a prescription drug handed out to us by doctors. It is in this very mythology that the danger to Americans hides. Not in the drug itself — it is the mythology that’s dangerous, not the chemical. The seductive qualities of this drug encourage people to release themselves from responsibility. They encourage people to disempower themselves, to shift their power to external influences. Rather than self-discipline, wisdom or education taking a role in the person’s outcome, the only factor that counts, according to the mythology, is the name of the drug you choose to take.

Of course, Americans absolutely love this story. They love it because there is a great unwillingness in Western societies, but especially in America, to take responsibility for shaping one’s own health outcome. In America, we like to blame everybody else for our situation. We don’t want to admit that we put ourselves into the health condition we are currently experiencing. Even our conventional medical system helps us give away our power by saying that it’s our genes, not our actions, that cause chronic disease. That way we can conveniently blame our parents when we get heart disease after eating a lifetime of fried foods and hydrogenated oils.It is a victim mentality, and it is precisely the mentality that pharmaceutical companies would very much like patients to consider integrating into their own lives. Because people who believe they are victims of circumstance always seek external solutions rather than inner transformation. And those solutions more often than not come in the form of prescription drugs.

In contrast, people who refuse to be victims look for answers within themselves. They understand that they have the ability to alter their outcomes by making new decisions, by learning new information and by shaping their lives one day at a time, in a way that serves their long-term goals.If Acomplia is approved, will likely be a blockbuster success regardless of whether or not it actually works. It will be a financial success because people are willing to pay almost anything to perpetuate the mythology that prescription drugs can release us from a lifetime of poor decisions.

But there’s more to this story! Acomplia will likely be a very popular drug, and five or ten years down the road, after tens of millions of Americans have taken it, we may begin to find some problems with it, in the same way that we found serious health problems with Vioxx, Baycol, NSAIDs and antidepressants. People may be harmed by Acomplia in ways that modern doctors and the makers of Acomplia cannot foresee. And when that happens, the very people who are taking the drug will then turn around and blame the drug companies for their problems!Because once again, the takers of the drugs are taking on the role of the victim. They believe they have been victimized by bad genes. They have been victimized by having bad luck in getting chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. And they have been victimized, they will claim, by this evil drug, Acomplia, which has given them some strange side effects. And thus the cycle of playing the victim and demanding external recourse and will continue.

This cycle will not end until individuals in America and elsewhere around the world have a reckoning — that the power to shape their lives and their health outcomes rests entirely within themselves. They are responsible for their health outcome. No one else can take that responsibility for them. And if they have not created the health situation they desire, they have no one else to blame.Now certainly, genes can be a factor. There are some people who are born with greater ability to store food as body fat. There are other people born with stronger hearts. Some people didn’t get good nutrition when they were infants, because their pregnant mothers didn’t know about good nutrition and didn’t feed them well, and thus they may be born with a predisposition to adult onset-diabetes later in life.

But these are not points of surrender. These are the realities of life. None of us are born with perfect bodies and perfect circumstances. And if you look around at the most successful people in the world, you will find that they came from less than ideal circumstances. They were forced by necessity to take charge of their own life and create an outcome that would serve them better. It is no excuse to say, ‘We don’t have perfect genes.’ Or ‘We don’t have a perfect environment.’ We can no longer place this responsibility for our health on these outside factors.

Granted, it is seductive, the idea that we can lower our cholesterol not by changing our foods or engaging in physical exercise, but by taking a magic pill called a statin drug. There is another seductive idea that we don’t have to take responsibility for our emotional health or our mental state. Instead, we can just take antidepressant drugs and let the chemicals take over for us. I speak in far more detail on this subject in a book called “Health Seduction,” found at www.CesaOnline.com.

The real result of this seduction, by the way, is perhaps worse than you think. There are millions of men now who can’t even get an erection because they have abused their bodies to the point that their reproductive organs no longer respond! And they have to use Viagra just to make their body parts function in a normal healthy way. And now women are interested in female Viagra. Because they’ve abused their health, too, and they don’t have the sexual energy they once had when they were younger. And they want it back. They think the answer is to look outside themselves in a pill or a patch or some other drug that will solve their problems for them.

The ultimate price of all this, by the way, is that we as individuals have sold our souls. We are no longer human beings that operate in harmony with the natural world, we are people who try to conquer our own internal ecosystems as well as the ecosystems in the natural world around us. And we do that through the use of synthetic chemicals and prescription drugs.

The message that we truly need to hear is one I’ve been repeating for years: being healthy does not require the use of synthetic chemicals. Being healthy is something that your body was designed to achieve naturally, you have a blueprint for health in every cell of your body right now. It’s called your DNA. And your DNA was designed and fine-tuned over hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution to thrive and survive in harmony with the natural environment.

You come from a long line of survivors — people who could get erections, people who didn’t die from heart disease before they could reproduce. The human body is designed for perfect health. The only reason we are not in perfect health today is because we have given up our power and, instead, put the responsibility for our health on drugs like Acomplia that we think can save us from all of the bad decisions and lifestyle mistakes that we continue to make on a daily basis.

Reality folks, is that a drug cannot replace good decisions. A chemical cannot reverse decades of being sedentary and refusing to get off your ass and go work out once in a while. A prescription drug cannot reverse the toxicity of the foods that you have been buying and consuming from grocery stores each and every day of your life.

As people take Acomplia in a desperate effort to pursue the mythology of this drug, they are only going to do themselves more harm. They are going to wind up in a situation where they are still obese, they still have body fat, they still have high cholesterol, they still have diabetes and heart disease and cancer. And now they’re spending $400/month on a synthetic chemical that has other side effects that are yet unknown.

That’s the reality of the situation. That’s what tens of millions of Americans are aiming for right now in placing so much hope in this unproven synthetic chemical that they believe will excuse them from a lifetime of pursuing unhealthy habits. Call it a deal with the devil if you like. But it really is nothing more complicated than unjustified belief in the mythology of prescription drugs.

In early clinical trials, Rimonabant Acomplia is looking promising. But with only 3,000+ people tested so far, it’s far from being approved by the FDA. And even as effective as Rimonabant Acomplia appears to be in early tests, much of the hype is overblown: daily walking or cardiovascular exercise results in far more weight loss. So does giving up the consumption of soft drinks or refined carbohydrates like white flour or added sugars. There are far more effective ways to lose weight and keep it off than popping a diet pill.
Yet the idea of a diet pill is seductive. It’s something that doesn’t require any exertion whatsoever, and that makes it a perfect fit for many Americans, who seem increasingly unwilling to actually take any action in order to achieve lasting results. What they want is a magic weight loss pill. And so far, Rimonabant Acomplia looks like the closest solution we’ve seen yet.

The real test, of course, will come when the potential side effects are fully examined. Will the drug be the next Vioxx or Fen-Phen? Unfortunately, we can no longer trust the drug safety review process of the FDA, meaning that even FDA approval is no guarantee that the drug is safe. We’ll only know the answer to that question after a few million people start taking the pills. No doubt, obese Americans will be lining up to volunteer as guinea pigs for this one: weight loss with no effort? Sign me up!

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Sanofi-Aventis SA’s new treatment, Rimonabant Acomplia, also known as rimonabant, has shown promise in a half-dozen clinical trials in curbing the cravings that make people hungry and reach for a cigarette.
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In studies, a 20-milligram dose once a day helped patients lose 5 percent to 10 percent of their weight in a year, raise good HDL cholesterol, lower triglycerides, and improve blood sugar and blood pressure.
If Rimonabant Acomplia gets marketing approval from the FDA later this month, Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis, which employs 1,000 at its drug-development center in Malvern, has said it could begin selling the pill by June 30.
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