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Dave Knapp

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
540 total appearances

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The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

And so I think more than anything, it's important to have a great relationship with your provider. If your provider understands this, if your provider has done the legwork, then you should have full faith and confidence in what they prescribe to you.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

And so I think more than anything, it's important to have a great relationship with your provider. If your provider understands this, if your provider has done the legwork, then you should have full faith and confidence in what they prescribe to you.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

But when we go from 503Bs that are governed and regulated by the CGMP, which means that all the API has to be sourced from FDA approved sources, et cetera, et cetera, you're just moving to something that's state governed. And so you just want to be familiar with what sort of regulations go on in the state that your medicine is coming from.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

But when we go from 503Bs that are governed and regulated by the CGMP, which means that all the API has to be sourced from FDA approved sources, et cetera, et cetera, you're just moving to something that's state governed. And so you just want to be familiar with what sort of regulations go on in the state that your medicine is coming from.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

But when we go from 503Bs that are governed and regulated by the CGMP, which means that all the API has to be sourced from FDA approved sources, et cetera, et cetera, you're just moving to something that's state governed. And so you just want to be familiar with what sort of regulations go on in the state that your medicine is coming from.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

And then just familiarize yourself with what that pharmacy's history has been because everybody's getting into this game. Yeah. That's the Wild West. Even some people that don't belong in it. So that would just be my only word of caution.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

And then just familiarize yourself with what that pharmacy's history has been because everybody's getting into this game. Yeah. That's the Wild West. Even some people that don't belong in it. So that would just be my only word of caution.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

And then just familiarize yourself with what that pharmacy's history has been because everybody's getting into this game. Yeah. That's the Wild West. Even some people that don't belong in it. So that would just be my only word of caution.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

I think a lot of us were bullish on Dr. Marty Macari, who has been nominated to head up the FDA. I think he's already gone through some of the back and forth on Capitol Hill even. He was the chief medical officer of Sesame Health, which is a huge prescriber of compounded GLP-1 medications. And so I think a lot of us were bullish on that. But, you know, TBD, right?

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

I think a lot of us were bullish on Dr. Marty Macari, who has been nominated to head up the FDA. I think he's already gone through some of the back and forth on Capitol Hill even. He was the chief medical officer of Sesame Health, which is a huge prescriber of compounded GLP-1 medications. And so I think a lot of us were bullish on that. But, you know, TBD, right?

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

I think a lot of us were bullish on Dr. Marty Macari, who has been nominated to head up the FDA. I think he's already gone through some of the back and forth on Capitol Hill even. He was the chief medical officer of Sesame Health, which is a huge prescriber of compounded GLP-1 medications. And so I think a lot of us were bullish on that. But, you know, TBD, right?

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

They need to be able to arbitrate the cost and bring the cost of these medications down when they're purchasing them in bulk through Medicare or Medicaid. I think the other thing to kind of jump back on Well, first of all, the Medicare thing, you think about this, like they find the money for absolutely everything else.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

They need to be able to arbitrate the cost and bring the cost of these medications down when they're purchasing them in bulk through Medicare or Medicaid. I think the other thing to kind of jump back on Well, first of all, the Medicare thing, you think about this, like they find the money for absolutely everything else.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

They need to be able to arbitrate the cost and bring the cost of these medications down when they're purchasing them in bulk through Medicare or Medicaid. I think the other thing to kind of jump back on Well, first of all, the Medicare thing, you think about this, like they find the money for absolutely everything else.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

When we talk about bankrupting anything, it's like pretty crazy to think what our government spends money on. And then when it comes to something like this that could literally change the course of the history of the United States by writing this broken metabolic ship that we've created, it's just so short-sighted. But the other thing that I think that we see- So short-sighted. Yeah.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

When we talk about bankrupting anything, it's like pretty crazy to think what our government spends money on. And then when it comes to something like this that could literally change the course of the history of the United States by writing this broken metabolic ship that we've created, it's just so short-sighted. But the other thing that I think that we see- So short-sighted. Yeah.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

When we talk about bankrupting anything, it's like pretty crazy to think what our government spends money on. And then when it comes to something like this that could literally change the course of the history of the United States by writing this broken metabolic ship that we've created, it's just so short-sighted. But the other thing that I think that we see- So short-sighted. Yeah.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

The other thing that I think we see in the Maha movement where they have it wrong is that just like everything politically, we've been given this false dichotomy. It's like we have to remove, we have to switch oils to, you know, beef tallow and we have to get the dyes out of the Froot Loops and like all good endeavors, like let's clean up the toxic environment, food environment.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

The other thing that I think we see in the Maha movement where they have it wrong is that just like everything politically, we've been given this false dichotomy. It's like we have to remove, we have to switch oils to, you know, beef tallow and we have to get the dyes out of the Froot Loops and like all good endeavors, like let's clean up the toxic environment, food environment.

The Dr. Tyna Show
The Fight for Affordable GLP1s & the Truth About Big Pharma | Dave Knapp

The other thing that I think we see in the Maha movement where they have it wrong is that just like everything politically, we've been given this false dichotomy. It's like we have to remove, we have to switch oils to, you know, beef tallow and we have to get the dyes out of the Froot Loops and like all good endeavors, like let's clean up the toxic environment, food environment.