Dr. Jason Fung

So even if you have all these bad habits, well, you don't want to eat because you're just feeling nauseated.

The problem is that if you ever go off of these and you never figured out what was driving all this, what would happen?

Well,

you're going to gain all that way back, which is precisely what we see, right?

So unless you stay on these long-term, so can you just, people are like, can people just stay on this long-term?

Like a blood pressure medication, right?

It's like, we'd like them to as a doctor because of these known benefits.

The reality, and they've done lots of studies on this, is that only about 50% or less of people actually stay on these GLP-1 drugs at one year.

And it's like, you think, well, why is that?

We're seeing all these benefits.

So why don't people take them?

It's very simple.

If you're nauseated all the time and you derive no pleasure from your food, right?

Because you're just full all the time, right?

Just think about when you're really, really full.

Do you derive pleasure from eating a hamburger?

No.

When you're hungry, hey, that hamburger is like terrific.

But if you're really full, there's none.

So