Dr. Barry Baines

And, you know, so you wind up getting in a really tough situation where, you know, when I was in an active practice working with, you know, patients, you know, doing exercise and eating right is, you know, it sounds, you know, easy, but behaviorally, it's very difficult.

And part of it is actually genetic, not from the standpoint that obesity is genetic, but the human species was always driven that you're always on the edge of starvation.

you know, in caveman and cavewoman times.

And if food was available, you just eat as much as you can and build up your fat reserves because you know it's going to happen.

And our genetics haven't changed with that.

So we're sort of at a very deep level.

The idea of exercise and good nutrition is not easy to follow.

And so this idea of the magic pill, the blockbuster, you know, medications that come out, this has had a significant impact.

But I kind of, in Dr. Jackson's corner here, because as soon as you go off the medication, if you don't do these other things, the weight will just come back.

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.