Patients given 30 mg of phentermine per day lost 8.3 pounds in six weeks compared to 3.3 pounds for those given a placebo according to a study by Wise (1975). Read the entire article | Email this article

Brenda, a 50 year old woman from New York, has struggled with weight her entire life. "I was overweight since I was a baby," she recalls. "No one else in my family was overweight but me." Over the years she tried numerous diet programs as well as various drugs and drug combinations to lose weight. "Years ago I had taken fenfluramine. It helped me lose weight, but it made my headaches worse." Read the entire article | Email this article

Debra, a mother of three from Chelan, Washington has taken diet pills for well over 20 years. "I'm 5-foot-1 tall and started out weighing about 140 lbs," Debra recalls. Read the entire article | Email this article

PHENTERMINE APPEARS TO HAVE INDUCED PSYCHOSIS in a 32-year-old woman. (Ref. 1, Cleare, 1996) Read the entire article | Email this article

"No eating after 2 pm," says Gary R. Albertson, D.O. of Monahans, Texas when asked about his No-Dinner diet. As far as diet drugs Albertson's says "I only use three diet medications--phentermine, diethylpropion and phendimetrazine." Read the entire article | Email this article

Dr. Jay Piatek explains how he uses phentermine and 5-HTP plus exercise and some unique motivational techniques to help both adults and children achieve long-term weight loss. Read the entire article | Email this article

Psychiatrist Dr. Dennis Padla 5-HTP may help patients who have plateaued, but may also increase the incidence of some side effects. Read the entire article | Email this article

The author of a study on the combination of Phentermine and Prozac discusses his findings.

The combination of phentermine and Prozac may be as effective as Fen-Phen like Michael Anchors, M.D. suggests, or may be even more effective. This according to preliminary results from a retrospective study performed by Dennis Padla, M.D. and J. Spoke, P.A. of St. Joseph, Mich. Read the entire article | Email this article

Dr. Michael Anchors notes that adding 5-HTP to Phentermine-Proac helps about half of plauteaed patients to lose more weight.

Michael Anchors, M.D., Ph.D. was the first to describe the use of phentermine combined with Prozac (fluoxetine) and other SSRIs in his best-seller Safer Than Phen-Fen (Prima Publishing, 1997). He is a clinical professor of medicine at Georgetown University and has a family practice in Gaithersburg, Maryland. A little over a year ago he started adding 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) in some of his patients taking Phen-Prozac.

Larry Hobbs interviewed Dr. Anchors by email to find out what effect, if any, it has had. Read the entire article | Email this article

Michael Anchors, M.D., Ph.D., the author of "Safer Than Phen-Fen" dicusses the use of combining phentermine with Prozac and other SSRIs to help patients lose weight. Read the entire article | Email this article

Psychiatrist Dr. Dennis Padla 5-HTP may help patients who have plateaued but may also increase the incidence of some side effects. Read the entire article | Email this article

Dr. Michael Anchors says that adding 5-HTP to Phentermine-Proac helps about half of plauteaed patients to lose more weight. Read the entire article | Email this article

Michael Anchors, M.D., Ph.D. is the author of the book titled Safer Than Phen-Fen. He is a clinical professor of medicine at Georgetown University and operates a family practice in Maryland. Read the entire article | Email this article

This is an update to the interview with Michael Anchors, M.D., Ph.D. about the use of Phen-Pro, the combination of phentermine and Prozac or certain other SSRIs. Read the entire article | Email this article

"We're getting seventy-eight percent greater weight loss than we got with Fen-Phen," says Martin Hinz, M.D., from Morgan Park Clinic of Duluth, Minn. "This is since we made some additional changes to our program in January of this year." Read the entire article | Email this article