Dr. Jason Fung

If you derive no pleasure from food, remember that eating is one of life's greatest joys, right?

We celebrate with food.

We get together.

We have food.

If you take that away, that's a huge loss.

It's a big gaping hole in your life.

So that's a problem because if you say, okay, for six months, you're losing weight, everything's fine.

Yes, you're not, you're not getting any pleasure from food, but it's like, so every time you go out, you know, you get together for somebody's birthday, everybody's enjoying themselves.

You're not because you're nauseated.

You can't eat what's in front of you.

You go to Christmas dinner and you're not just not enjoying the food, like because you're on Ozempic, right?

How fun is that?

So how long can you really keep that up?

And the answer is most people can't keep that up for more than about six months to a year.

So there's a huge drop off.

And I've prescribed, you know, these drugs like hundreds and hundreds of times because there are health benefits to them.

I struggle to keep people on them, right?

Because of the problem.

And I think that's really where the issue is.

Not that they're not effective, not that they don't have benefits and so on, but it's like they're not affecting one thing, right?