Dr. Jason Fung

weight loss really has, right?

So there was, you know, type two diabetes, but type two diabetes is a huge risk factor for heart disease and kidney disease and blindness and stroke and all that.

And then you're seeing less arthritis, you're seeing less fatty liver, you're seeing heart benefits, you're seeing weight benefits.

So what it's exposed is that, hey, this is actually a super important thing because remember for years, doctors actually just didn't care about weight loss.

Because they knew that calories in calories out wouldn't work.

So they didn't even talk about it anymore because it's so futile.

So the whole thing is that that's great because now we're talking about a really important topic, right?

And you've got treatments for it.

What's bad about it is that I think that it's masking a lot of issues, which is that

You know, America's not suffering from a GLP deficiency, right?

The problem is much deeper.

So, you know, what's causing people to gain weight?

What's causing people to eat more?

What's causing all that hunger?

You can suppress that hunger by hitting the GLP-1 system because GLP-1 is a powerful satiety hormone.

You're not getting a little bit of extra GLP.

You're getting massive, super pharmacologic doses.

You cannot get those levels of GLP-1 naturally, like with foods and whatever.

Certain foods, protein and fiber, they'll raise GLP-1, but they'll raise it a little bit, physiologic, not pharmacologic, which is massive doses.

So these massive doses sort of just overwhelm everything else and create this satiety, which is going to take care of all this hunger, the homeostatic, the hedonic, and the conditioned hunger.