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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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EXCLUSIVE: Slender women seeking fuller figures - a look popularised by social media stars including Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner - are taking potentially dangerous appetite stimulants
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Apetamin: Regulator investigating slim thick drug after BBC investigation
Apetamin: Regulator investigating slim thick drug after BBC investigation
An unlicensed medicine has become popular thanks to social media promotion - but just how dangerous is it?
21 April 2021 You feel quite nauseous. I would jerk or shiver or shake. I was probably overdosing myself. I collapsed down the stairs at home. I collapsed in the street and they brought me into hospital. Apetamin is the devil.
This was just one young woman s experience of taking Apetamin - an unlicensed drug that supposedly acts as an appetite stimulant - to try to get Kardashian-esque curves and an extreme hourglass figure. The product, which is widely available online, is promoted by influencers on social media platforms.