Dr. Ben Bikman

This study made it very, very clear.

It was published in the journal Gut in 1996.

To me, that's the best use of the drug, to say,

The physician or the clinician, the expert would be talking with the overweight patient and they would say, you know what?

You need to control carbs.

These refined sugars and starches, you got to eat less of them.

Then the person says, yeah, but that's the problem.

I can't eat less of them.

I'm addicted to them.

all right, let's use a low dose.

And this gets into that range of five to 10 units or 0.05 to one gram.

Milligram, yeah, milligram per week.

That is gonna be kind of a micro dose level.

To me, that's the best use, where the physician, the expert, the clinician is saying, let's just give you a low, low dose of this drug, and I want you to think of it as helping you control your cravings.

Because what do people crave?

People don't crave a plate of bacon and eggs.

They don't crave a handful of walnuts.

They crave something sweet and gooey or salty and crunchy, and usually it's going to be potato chips, crackers, cereal, ice cream.

And that's what we wanna help them control.

So rather than saying, this is a weight loss drug, what if we changed the conversation and said, this is a drug that is designed to help you change your eating habits.