Once again, as was the case with Dr. Valter Longo, I come back to talk about a report that appeared in the program “Le Iene” signed by the journalist Nadia Toffa. Here, before addressing the case, and precisely because we are talking about a program that in the past has made services on diets and health from the cut in my opinion a bit approximate and sensationalistic (even the service on the fasting-mimicking diet of Dr. Longo had in my opinion some gaps, but let’s forget it), I wanted to reassure you that I am writing about it because I find the topic really important , and because this time it has touched a key on which I have a personal experience just as a Dcomedieta blogger.

But let’s get to the topic of the service and my article: psychotropic drugs for weight loss.
Did you know that there are dieticians out there who prescribe weight loss drugs that are actually psychiatric drugs?
In the service of the Hyenas that you can watch here , the journalist Toffa interviewed a boy who allegedly had a prescription for a galenic preparation (i.e. a drug made in a pharmacy starting from the medical prescription of the excipients) based on fluoxetine from a dietician in Milan. Fluoxetine is an antidepressant, the use of which for purposes other than the treatment of psychiatric problems is prohibited in Italy. 

And, think about it, this was also the reason for the withdrawal from the market in recent years of some weight loss drugs that acted at the level of the central nervous system: the use of substances that were also present in antidepressant and antiepileptic drugs or which, like the case of sibutramine, despite being indicated in anti-obesity drugs, acting on the nervous system had also been used as an antidepressant.