Dr. Dan Bessison

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Today, Explained · The end of dieting · 11 Nov 2025 podcast

This idea that weight is regulated, it's taken a long time to get any traction there.

Doctors would say things like, you know, if you show me you can stick to a diet, well, then I'll maybe talk to you about a medicine.

We don't do that with diabetes or high blood pressure.

We're very quick to go to a medication in those conditions.

So I think there's a lot of maybe bias and stigma directed at people living with obesity that we tend to blame them for their health problem.

So medicines that weren't super effective and an environment that really thought that people could do this on their own.

I'm an old person with kind of gray hair.

I prescribe Fen-Phen.

So I've been doing this for, gosh, whatever, almost 30 years.

Yeah, I would use the term game changer.

There's never been anything like this.

We've done studies with older medications and, you know, the medications worked okay, but people weren't happy with them.

These medicines just, not only the ones we have now, which are semaglutide and trisepatide, but the ones that are coming after that, that are in clinical trials.

We're in a time now that medications are likely to provide the kind of weight loss that we used to only see with bariatric surgery.

I understand that there's more than 100 medications in this anti-obesity medication pipeline.

We've been doing studies with some of the next generation, and they're even more effective than the semaglutide and trisepatide are.

Yeah.

And, you know, when we have somebody go to bariatric surgery, we prepare them for that.

They see a psychologist, they see a nutritionist, they talk to other people who've had surgery and say, how was that for you?

They think about it.

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