Appetite suppressants work by blocking your body's ability to reabsorb the chemical signals that your brain uses, called neurotransmitters, to regulate hunger.
When combined with diet and exercise, studies have shown that prescription appetite suppressants can lead to losing around one and a half to maybe a little over two kilograms of extra weight.
The complex of proteins which gives it its name first came to attention because an immune suppressant called rapamycin has a strong effect on it: hence " mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1" .