Medical Weight Loss Clinic Vitamin B12 Shots? B-Serious …

B12 Shot Weight Loss Clinic Money MakerB12 Means You’ll Be Back
Walk into most medical weight loss clinics and you’ll be told that all weight loss patients need to return weekly for vitamin B12 shots to increase or maintain energy during their weight loss programs.  Sounds medical and even magical, but here’s the dirty little secret – these “booster shots” are just a gimmick to get you back in the door for another billable visit, or worse, to compensate for a prescription appetite suppressant-enabled starvation diet that has inadequate nutrition.

Treating the Symptoms, Not the Problem

bottle of pillsAre Prescriptions and Surgery the right options to battle obesity?

When you go to your doctor’s office, prescriptions and surgery are the two alternatives for weight loss and weight related illnesses that most traditional physicians are equipped to offer.  Both options are discrete and concrete treatments for the symptoms of obesity, but they do not impact the real, underlying causes of excess weight or obesity – namely, the industrial food system and modern eating habits.