Dr. David Allison
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first heard Mar 2026
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And when you get zero leptin, then big things happen.
So zero leptin, you get hyperphagia, you get enormous hunger and excessive food intake and a very fatty body composition and other.
But super rare, doesn't really happen.
Probably a few dozen people on the planet.
Um, and, but anyway, some of those people were identified by the Cambridge group.
And, uh, as I said, they were the first providers ever to be able to look a patient in the eye and say, I not only know why you have obesity, I know what to do about it.
I know how to fix it.
and say it honestly.
Lots of people could say it.
Lots of people still say it.
They were the first people who would say it honestly.
And that was tremendously, I was very envious of that ability.
And until then, since then, until relatively recently, we haven't been able to make similar kinds of statements to many people.
Now with the new anti-obesity drugs, I don't think we can necessarily say, now I know why you have obesity.
That part I still think is a little bit unclear in many cases.
But I think what we can say is we do know how to help you.
Certainly for obesity and type 2 diabetes, I'd say that's, you know, I'm not going to give an exact number, but that's in the spirit of things that's in the realm of how I would answer.
I think we always want more information.
We will never have complete information.
Somewhere between where are we today and some hypothetical perfect complete information that we will never get to.
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