Dr. Abud Bakri

If we kind of zoom out...

Our medical system, if we didn't have these interventions was gonna collapse on itself, thanks to the obesity, prediabetes, diabetes epidemics.

Because we don't have enough clinicians or finances to get everybody who was prediabetic in the last 20 years, and they all transitioned to diabetes and ended up with diabetic medications and dialysis and eventually cardiovascular disease and all these things.

We don't have the resources to take care of all these people.

Like our medical system was gonna collapse.

And there wasn't enough finances to take care of it.

Now these GLP-1s are coming in and kind of transforming that phase of medicine because now we have a chance to dramatically change the rate of obesity, diabetes, prediabetes, and all these cardiomyelobalic disorders.

So where do we stand?

We needed something to happen.

I mean, ideally everybody, you know, would get morning sunlight and eat only healthy foods, unprocessed foods, and have low stress and sleep great at night.

Maybe no one would develop to become obese.

But the reality is people become overweight, obese.

They get stuck in that hole.

And if you just try to step out of the hole the way you came in, sometimes that doesn't work.

You need a different path out of that problem.

And that's been the diet and exercise literature for the last 40 years.

Millions of books have been sold on how to get people leaner.

We now have interventions medically that can dramatically change people's weights for the first time.

We've had drugs in the past, you know, 5%, 10% of body weight.

Now with the GLP-1s, we're getting 10%, 20%, even 30% of body weight being shaved off of people, especially with the new red and true side data.