Dr. Casey Means

And then there's been conversations, Peter Tia's weighed in on this, about loss in lean mass.

Part of the weight loss is disproportionately muscle.

And so there's a lot of concerns about it above and beyond its ability to lower the number on the scale that we should all be very alert to.

Because the reality is that the 40 trillion cells in our body are in an environment in the Western world right now that is not conducive to

core biologic functioning.

And there is obviously no shot that can mitigate the multi-front assault on our biology that ultimately generates a body that's immensely profitable for those hundred specialties of healthcare.

So, you know, we're living in this matrix and this game of, you know, a devil's bargain between a $4 trillion healthcare and pharmaceutical industry and a $6 trillion processed food industry that all want us to think that, you know,

the answer is found in a shot and we don't need to change anything about our lifestyle.

But of course, you know, these simple habits that we're talking about, eating real food, moving, walking, etc., getting out in the sunlight, rapidly can increase our mitochondrial capacity and, you know, are just the most disruptive thing that we can do, you know, in our culture today is learn about metabolic health and improve it and

It's just interesting to see what's happening in the media with sort of the assault against these empowering habits and very in favor of a medication like Ozempic.

And then when you trace, unfortunately, incentives there, a huge percentage of these outlets that cover Ozempic as a miracle drug, their bills are paid by pharma, 60% of mainstream media advertising budget is pharma.

And so I just say that because I think...

It's a scandal that we give so much airtime to these medications and not to simple metabolic habits that can make us feel so incredible and really change our core biology.

I think we have to look at history here.

I mean, first of all, there have been other weight loss medications throughout history that you've talked about on the podcast, like the Fen-Phen.

And then there was another one, I think even before that, that made people, their temperature go up that you've talked about.

And I think that

I'm not just going to lump... It's a different mechanism, so I don't want to lump it in with past weight loss drugs.

However, if you look at the trends throughout history, the medicalization and...

pharmacology towards chronic issues has been an abject failure.