Posted by tom2228 on May 18, 2014, at 21:42:12
In reply to How Does Remeron Make You Gain Weight?, posted by Babbler20 on May 18, 2014, at 21:28:00
It also directly affects one's metabolism.
The current thinking is that psychiatric medications tend to elicit weight gain via a combination of antagonism/ inverse agonism at histamine H1 receptors and serotonin 2C receptors. However, not all medications that possess these characteristics cause prominent weight gain. It is a complex phenomenon that other pharmacodynamic actions likely play a role in.
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