A resource I have trusted in the past provides the following information: “Gaining weight requires a schedule that balances the drug’s tendency to bind dietary fats and fat-soluble vitamins. Take cholestyramine either 1 hour before or 4–6 hours after consuming your main, calorie-rich meals.” This does not agree with other materials which seem to indicate having food with cholestyramine. However, those materials do not address a patient's desire to gain weight. Does anyone have experience with this situation, or can you recommend an authoritative site that addresses trying to gain weight while taking cholestyramine?
Cholestyramine - How can my wife gain weight while on cholestyramine?
Question posted by 1NITPICKER1 on 28 May 2025
Last updated on 28 May 2025
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masso
29 May 2025
Hello,
I will not waste your time:
cholestyramine slows gastric emptying of liquids and reduces appetite in healthy subjects
Conclusions & inferences: This study provides the first evidence that cholestyramine significantly slows liquid gastric emptying and reduces appetite in healthy humans. cholestyramine therefore presents an attractive gut-brain signaling research tool in that it is not absorbed and thus lacks potentially confounding postabsorptive effects. Furthermore, with clear effects on gastric emptying and appetite, cholestyramine now merits consideration as a trial therapeutic strategy for appetite suppression and weight loss.
Source: National Library of Medicine-National Center for Biotechnology Information
You are intelligent, do not believe everything you read online, nor what a regular idividual (s) tells you.
Let us cut to the chase, I only made reference to the Conclusions & inferences of the one trusted site I use. Been answereing posts for 12 years, meaning I´ve learnt a few things , like your wife needs professional medical advice in order to achieve what you ask for.
Regards, masso
masso
29 May 2025
Read at the bottom "Metabolic":
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