119. The Magic Pill (Fen-Phen)
Added 2024-10-31 17:32:04 +0000 UTCA trendy new diet drug combination subjects millions of users to serious health effects, resulting in a monumental legal battle.
Prelude: Cancer concerns force Belviq, a popular diet drug, to be withdrawn from the marketplace.
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This one took me a few listens to really absorb all the gold. Golly. Fascinating and horrifying all at the same time
Sam
2025-03-05 06:47:57 +0000 UTCPeople never fail to be disgusting…
Stephanie Q DeMon
2025-01-10 16:35:33 +0000 UTCRFK Jr has entered the chat.
Matt Scott
2024-12-21 01:06:30 +0000 UTCWhat's wrong with Ozempic?
Kylie Hirst
2024-12-07 00:48:14 +0000 UTCYes, Kylie! ACC is taking a breather! He’ll be back shortly and there’s a ton of great older stuff to hear.
Amie Redman
2024-12-06 23:45:44 +0000 UTCHey ACC what a perfectly timed episode! I’ve been a nurse for WAY too long and also a VL. I actually took fen-phen back in the day only for 2 months before my PCP requested a voluntary EKG and echo which thankfully were ok. But I’ve lived and practiced long enough to have seen Big Pharma throw out so many medications with no long-term testing because they calculate precisely how many lawsuits they can absorb and still make a profit. A BIG PROFIT. I actually used to work with a physician who, when prescribing new meds, would ask the patient to repeat back to him “I am a guinea pig” as part of his informed consent😊 your episodes are, as always, exceptionally researched and delivered with perfect cadence. Hope you will still be around to do a Semaglutide episode!!!!
kristen bartlett
2024-11-17 03:42:53 +0000 UTCHey Guys, I'm new to Patreon and I'm wondering if there's a reason why episodes have slowed down? It looks like they used to be every 2 weeks but is there a long break at the end of the year? I'm almost through them all, might have to go back and relisten the whole series 😅
Kylie Hirst
2024-11-07 10:10:40 +0000 UTC'Sounds delicious...' 😏
rick davis
2024-11-04 16:13:14 +0000 UTCOzempic has already been on the market over a decade....I took Redux back in the 90's now I take a GLP1...they are different....but with all medications there's always risks.....I REALLY hope GLP1's don't end up with weird life threatening issues that ccause them to get pulled cuz unlike fen/phen they actually Fix the issues....not trick your body then cause heart issues. They've done research and have found that GLP1'S actually protect against cardiovascular disease and now they are saying they can protect against alzheimers and they are researching them to be used for alcohol addiction! I've been on them for 2 years with no adverse reactions....only 90 lbs of fat gone and all my PCOS symptoms gone!! 🤞🙏🤷♀️
Jenny Long
2024-11-04 14:32:37 +0000 UTCPhysicians who have a decent understanding of obesity and weight gain (they're called bariatric specialists) know that this is an enormously complicated topic involving a lot of biological, cultural, and psychological aspects. It is NEVER simply about calories in, calories out. This was also the premise behind seeking an expanded indication as an obesity treatment for the GLP-1 inhibitors. Weight loss also results in reduced risk for cardiovascular events — even if it’s achieved through medication.
Michelle Hebert
2024-11-03 19:36:51 +0000 UTCActually ACC, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, what primary pulmonary hypertension is now called) has a 3-year survival rate (not 4 years) if not treated or if ineffectively treated. Fortunately, Flolan (epoprostenol) is no longer the only treatment choice. There are now 16 different treatments across 5 different classes with different mechanisms of action. (Actually make that 6 with the approval of sotatercept [Winrevair] in March 2024.) Improved treatments have increased survival rates and quality of life for PAH patients. Sadly, though, PAH remains inevitably lethal, usually within 7 years after diagnosis.
Michelle Hebert
2024-11-03 19:26:53 +0000 UTCHe was smart. Fenfluramine was the problem. Phentermine by itself is safe and has been in regular use since its FDA approval in 1959.
Michelle Hebert
2024-11-02 19:55:47 +0000 UTCWill have to wait another decade or more and that's only IF it gets taken off the market.
Michelle Hebert
2024-11-02 19:51:03 +0000 UTCPhentermine BY ITSELF is safe for most and has been in regular use for 65 years! I just lost 30 lbs while using it over the last 10 months. Steady, regular but small amounts of loss each month by eating far less food.
Michelle Hebert
2024-11-02 19:50:04 +0000 UTCAbsolutely! The so called "wellness" industry of completely unregulated and untested products is far, FAR more dangerous and deadly!
Michelle Hebert
2024-11-02 19:44:06 +0000 UTCNo way! Many more people are alive today and living healthier lives because of the FDA's work. Baby . . . bath water. Throw out what's bad, keep what's GOOD!
Michelle Hebert
2024-11-02 19:41:02 +0000 UTCThat's wild. Can't wait for the ozempic episode.
Chlo
2024-11-01 21:28:45 +0000 UTCThe FDA is SO corrupt. And very mismanaged. They should be shut the F down.
N8™
2024-11-01 20:39:40 +0000 UTCWonderful job, Citizen.
Tracey Hayes
2024-11-01 13:04:35 +0000 UTCTesting on kids?!
Ally Jakubicka
2024-11-01 05:57:11 +0000 UTCWow I had no idea why any of these were recalled… another excellent episode, ACC.
Amie Redman
2024-11-01 04:54:53 +0000 UTCI took Redux right before it got pulled off the market! I didn't know there was a class action law suit!
Jenny Long
2024-11-01 00:18:04 +0000 UTC🎃 great ep acc!
Brenda Diaz
2024-10-31 23:31:54 +0000 UTCA new episode of Swindled dropping is akin to Smash Hits magazine being pushed through my letter box on a Saturday morning when I was 10 and had been sitting on the stairs waiting excitedly for two hours….
Maxine Page
2024-10-31 22:24:11 +0000 UTCregardless of medicalization of fatness, there is not a single weight loss drug that does not start from the conceit that fat people simply eat "too much", prove me wrong. and yea cancer, heart failure, thyroid disease, suicide, alcoholism (all real side effects of the most "effective" weight loss drugs)? who cares! get thin. it's for your health!! it's not like it's been proven over and over that health promoting activities improve health regardless of weight loss or anything.
Rai
2024-10-31 21:15:29 +0000 UTCDamn she died on my birthday. I was a toddler in 97. 😢
Thomas Cain
2024-10-31 20:56:15 +0000 UTCEvery time I get an email saying there is another swindled episode, it feels like Christmas and I can’t wait to listen to it. Thank you.
Dime
2024-10-31 20:05:32 +0000 UTCWhat a great episode. An Inception of fraud and it's like three levels deep! A nice Halloween surprise (as well as that music, deformr). Also wtf, the post office...?
Alan
2024-10-31 19:54:01 +0000 UTCThis was excellent. Thank you.
Alyssa Stuart
2024-10-31 19:28:38 +0000 UTCThe FDA has dropped the ball a bunch but CC you should do an episode on the vitamin and supplement companies that got Congress to basically deregulate their industry in the 90s. That’s why all those vitamins at GNC have that “these statements haven’t been evaluated by the FDA” labels!
Michael Johnson
2024-10-31 19:23:04 +0000 UTCMy doctor put me on Phentermine at 16. He didn't think combining phen and fen was a good idea. Boy was he onto something.
Carrie Elaine
2024-10-31 19:18:35 +0000 UTCThis episode had like 3 other swindled episodes wrapped in one: Dalkon Shield, the Lottery Lawyer, Horse Mafia!
Terrance ray
2024-10-31 18:41:30 +0000 UTCHell yeah!
STEPh Zssssss
2024-10-31 18:41:22 +0000 UTCGreed is a MF!
Vino Galan
2024-10-31 18:23:55 +0000 UTCThe timing of this is something else. Talking about people hitting the OZ in the morning, listening to CC talk about fen-phen in the afternoon.
sucriC drawkcaB
2024-10-31 18:13:11 +0000 UTCHAPPY HALLOWEEN
AR
2024-10-31 17:50:36 +0000 UTCTHANK YOU! It's a Halloween miracle!
Jane S
2024-10-31 17:46:48 +0000 UTC
