ELI5- why do medications cause weight gain?

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I know with weight loss as a side effect it’s often due to decreased appetite and eating less. Does it cause the opposite with the side effect weight gain? You become more hungry?

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I know that SSRIs do cause your body to store fat in your liver. I am not sure why but it is likely due to the increase oevelnof serotonin in your blood. That might be more of a mechanism and less of an explanation. Or it might be totally incorrect.

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