Lorcaserin Diet Pill – Is it Safe?

The Lorcaserin diet pill has not been approved by the FDA yet. The pill is still in its experimental stages, but so far experts are saying that Lorcaserin is showing promise in clinical trials.

A drug company-funded study of 3,100 obese or overweight people found that half of those taking lorcaserin for a year lost five percent or more of their body weight. Those taking dummy pills faired only half as well.

As importantly, most of the people who kept taking the little blue pill kept the weight off.

That’s good news for dieters and even better news for Arena Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes the drug.

Except for headaches and dizziness, side effects were essentially no worse than placebo, according to a study to be published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. There was no higher rate of heart valve problems, blood pressure or cholesterol levels.