WHAT IS IT?
Marketed as a vitamin supplement and “appetite stimulant,” Apetamin is a weight-gain syrup manufactured by Indian pharmaceutical company TIL Healthcare. While the product is sold widely across Africa, Asia, Russia, and Central and Latin America, it has not been sanctioned for safe consumption by the FDA or the UK equivalent, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
One of the key ingredients in Apetamin is cyproheptadine hydrochloride, a sedative antihistamine used for allergies available in the US and the UK by prescription only. It is the cyproheptadine hydrochloride that is responsible for the effect of Apetamin, Dr Halim says. “The claim is that the cyproheptadine hydrochloride will increase appetite by increasing IGF-1 levels, which is a hormone we all have,” she explains. “It also influences the hypothalamus which is responsible for appetite.”
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Francesca Belouad, MA, is a Research Psychologist in GEB-SDGE. She is responsible for administrating interviews and overseeing clinical aspects of the NIMH Family Study. Francesca has been employed as a Research Psychologist at the NIMH since 2000, when she was recruited by Dennis Charney, MD, during the formation of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Program. Prior to this, she held research positions at the Section on Development Psychology at the NIMH, Outpatient Psychiatry at the Washington Veterans Medical Center, and the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Francesca s work has focused on the writing and submission of the original NIMH Family Study protocol and the development and selection of research measures. She currently administers headache, psychiatric, sleep, and family history interviews to adults and children at initial and follow-up time points. She conducts reviews of clinical assessments a