Alan Levinovitz

It's, I don't know, it's the drugs that you're on.

And of course, these are marginally true.

Sometimes you can take a drug that causes weight gain, often significant weight gain.

But at the end of the day, it was always true that weight gain was caused by eating too much and weight could be lost by eating less.

Now that we have GLP-1s, of course, the blame element disappears.

And so we can go back to sort of observing what was obviously true the whole time, but it couldn't be true without people also being blamed.

And so what ended up happening was a defensive reaction against a kind of scientific truth

that was oriented towards exculpating people for situations that really weren't their fault, but looked like to the public it was their fault.

So I would say that that's what's going on over in the world of what appears to be suffering that's mediated by beliefs.

I'm really grateful to you for those words and for having me on.

It's been tough.

Not as tough as people who are sick have it, but it was tough.

So hearing that sort of thing and having that kind of feedback really means a lot to me.

I appreciate it.

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