Dr. Casey Means

To help you be satiated and the science can show us how to do this.

And a lot of it comes down to eating essentially what you were talking about, how you eat omnivorous protein, um, healthy sources with nutrient density and lots of colorful fruits, vegetables, um, spices, herbs, things like that.

Um, so yeah.

Ozempic is the commercial name and Munjara and Wagovi and yeah.

I think there were over 20 million prescriptions in the United States last year.

It's $20,000 per year.

Right now insurance is covering it for indications, but there is an all-out assault from the pharmaceutical industry to essentially classify obesity as a genetic disease and a chronic disease in order to be able to feed this medication more into the insurance pathway and essentially get more

taxpayer dollars to pay for this medication.

And it is extremely expensive and it's on track to be the highest grossing medication in human history because it's now being recommended for people with obesity, type 2 diabetes.

And then the American Academy of Pediatrics recently has talked about giving this to children as young as 12.

as part of the first line for overweight.

And I think really it's such a travesty based on the conversation we've had because what Ozempic does not do in any way, shape, or form is impact the toxic environment that we're living in that's hurting our mitochondria.

Losing weight is different than improving mitochondrial function, and mitochondrial dysfunction is the root cause of...

Basically, every chronic illness and symptom that's torturing American lives today.

And so in many ways, it represents like the ultimate bandaid for an environment that is not changing.

And when you think about what we could do with twenty thousand dollars per year.

And it's a weekly injection.

So people will say, well, per person.

And it's a medication that is intended to be taken for life because when people come off this medication, many people are gaining back all of the weight

or even more weight afterwards.