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Dave Knapp

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
540 total appearances

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

whatever's going on in the news that might be pertinent to somebody whose life is being transformed by what I always call leveling the metabolic playing field. That's really, in essence, what these medications are doing for people who are taking them for type 2 diabetes or obesity, is they're actually just giving people a fighting chance for their biology to come into alignment with

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

whatever's going on in the news that might be pertinent to somebody whose life is being transformed by what I always call leveling the metabolic playing field. That's really, in essence, what these medications are doing for people who are taking them for type 2 diabetes or obesity, is they're actually just giving people a fighting chance for their biology to come into alignment with

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

In the sense that they can kind of work with the medication and bring themselves into better, more full, complete health for themselves. And one of the things that has been just the evergreen topic within this community is just the accessibility. They're extremely expensive medications to use.

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

In the sense that they can kind of work with the medication and bring themselves into better, more full, complete health for themselves. And one of the things that has been just the evergreen topic within this community is just the accessibility. They're extremely expensive medications to use.

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

In the sense that they can kind of work with the medication and bring themselves into better, more full, complete health for themselves. And one of the things that has been just the evergreen topic within this community is just the accessibility. They're extremely expensive medications to use.

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

to get, unless you're diabetic, it's a little bit easier if you're diabetic, but then you have to be diabetic to get it.

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

to get, unless you're diabetic, it's a little bit easier if you're diabetic, but then you have to be diabetic to get it.

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

to get, unless you're diabetic, it's a little bit easier if you're diabetic, but then you have to be diabetic to get it.

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

Yeah, yeah. I mean, and sure, that's the other thing that... that we've learned in the Knapp household is the insurance companies will fight you tooth and nail to not cover anything that is expensive. They're essentially practicing medicine, right? At the bureaucratic level of the insurance companies, they're just saying, yeah, there's something better here.

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

Yeah, yeah. I mean, and sure, that's the other thing that... that we've learned in the Knapp household is the insurance companies will fight you tooth and nail to not cover anything that is expensive. They're essentially practicing medicine, right? At the bureaucratic level of the insurance companies, they're just saying, yeah, there's something better here.

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

Yeah, yeah. I mean, and sure, that's the other thing that... that we've learned in the Knapp household is the insurance companies will fight you tooth and nail to not cover anything that is expensive. They're essentially practicing medicine, right? At the bureaucratic level of the insurance companies, they're just saying, yeah, there's something better here.

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

And so ultimately, yeah, it's very difficult to stay on the medication as well as getting treatment for obesity. Once you're below a certain BMI, unless your doctor is coding everything just so, It's very hard to stay on it because now you're not obese anymore, but you need the medication for maintenance.

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

And so ultimately, yeah, it's very difficult to stay on the medication as well as getting treatment for obesity. Once you're below a certain BMI, unless your doctor is coding everything just so, It's very hard to stay on it because now you're not obese anymore, but you need the medication for maintenance.

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

And so ultimately, yeah, it's very difficult to stay on the medication as well as getting treatment for obesity. Once you're below a certain BMI, unless your doctor is coding everything just so, It's very hard to stay on it because now you're not obese anymore, but you need the medication for maintenance.

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

Many people who are on these medications for obesity will need some level of treatment because like any chronic disease, typically when you need treatment to get it in remission, you need treatment to keep it there. And that sort of bears out in the clinical trials for these as well.

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

Many people who are on these medications for obesity will need some level of treatment because like any chronic disease, typically when you need treatment to get it in remission, you need treatment to keep it there. And that sort of bears out in the clinical trials for these as well.

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

Many people who are on these medications for obesity will need some level of treatment because like any chronic disease, typically when you need treatment to get it in remission, you need treatment to keep it there. And that sort of bears out in the clinical trials for these as well.

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

That's not to say it's going to be everybody's story, but you're leveling the metabolic playing field with a peptide that is supplanting something that's deficient or deficient in your body. And so once you remove that, you're sort of fighting an uphill battle again. So the issue of accessibility has been this evergreen topic.

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

That's not to say it's going to be everybody's story, but you're leveling the metabolic playing field with a peptide that is supplanting something that's deficient or deficient in your body. And so once you remove that, you're sort of fighting an uphill battle again. So the issue of accessibility has been this evergreen topic.

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

That's not to say it's going to be everybody's story, but you're leveling the metabolic playing field with a peptide that is supplanting something that's deficient or deficient in your body. And so once you remove that, you're sort of fighting an uphill battle again. So the issue of accessibility has been this evergreen topic.