It really is not worth taking a risk...

What we been made aware of at Ukmedix News is that the criminals that make fake weight loss medication are becoming better at tricking the authorities. Those of you who read our news on a regular basis will know that we have been campaigning very hard to warn people that any weight loss medication that calls itself natural, traditional or herbal is very often not the case and we always advise you to take any weight loss medication or supplement to your doctor before you use it.

The latest scam that is becoming more widespread is the use of analogue compounds that are very similar to licensed prescription compounds but are altered in such a way so that they are harder to detect by the relevant health authorities who are testing the illegal products.For example tests done in Hong Kong on one particular so called natural weight loss product found that it contained a compound called N-desmethyl-sibutramine which is an analogue compound of the sibutramine drug that is the active ingredient in the weight loss medication Reductil. The increasingly sophisticated criminal operations employ scientists to slightly alter the sibutramine compound so that its effectiveness as an appetite suppressant will not be affected but it will avoid most types of testing by health authorities.

This practice is extremely dangerous as the analogue compounds have not been tested properly for side effects and could therefore end up making people very ill. In fact in Hong Kong over the last couple of years almost 50 people have been brought into hospital feeling very sick after having used weight loss medications that they thought were purely natural. In fact a women has actually died from using fake ‘natural’ weight-loss products from a heart attack, and another woman suffered from liver failure and had to have a liver transplant.

It really is not worth taking a risk. If you feel that you could make use of weight loss medication you must get a prescription from a doctor and take proper medical advice beforehand.