Dr. Barry Baines

And so, you know, you sort of get yourself in a corner of how best can you

you know, can you handle this?

So now my understanding is they're trying to develop some GLP-1s where it, that you're not having to take it forever in order to keep your weight off, that there are some medications that might be coming out where, well, you can taper and you can still keep the weight off.

But again, it has to be paired with lifestyle changes and

No one has a magic bullet for that.

In other words, what is going to be the thing that's going to really help people to do that?

And I think people get isolated with that, that they think they're all alone with trying to do that.

And kind of from my perspective, I think there has to be a more

from a public health perspective, a community effort, that if you can do this with other people, it's easier, okay?

I mean, I exercise.

I have a BMI problem also, but Dr. Chaklis Hassan, I don't know if you have this problem, but every time I step on not only the scale, but when they measure how tall I am, I seem to be getting shorter.

And so even though my weight is the same, my BMI is going up.

so i agree with you that we we need a better way to calculate uh bmi um but i think it's a you know one of the solutions is uh community-based efforts rather than just trying to um you know pound on people for you know eat right and exercise and and things like that because everybody's busy um certainly in minnesota not in sarasota but in minnesota

Going outside to exercise, probably starting tomorrow, we're supposed to get some snow.

You know, that's dangerous, too, because I think we're going to probably talk a little bit about polypharmacy and the problem that that gets into with falls and stuff like that if you don't understand the interactions with all the medications.

And then the one last thing, and then hopefully I'm answering the questions okay here, has to do with the explosion in pharmaceuticals.

I go back to when I was in medical school.

And within a few years of graduating medical school, the number of drugs that were out had tripled or quadrupled.

And again, we're talking about medical school for me was 50 years ago.

And it just seems every day more and more medications come out.