Dr. Jason Fung

It's a very big pharmacologic dose of GLP-1.

And that squelches your hunger.

So if you have emotional hunger, hedonic hunger, if you have conditioned hunger, it will squelch it because you're using the GLP-1 to squelch it.

The problem is if you ever come off of the GLP-1, and a lot of people do for various reasons, but if you come off of it and you haven't learned anything, then you don't understand.

So if you're an emotional eater, well, yeah, you can use this drug.

It will make you nauseated.

You won't want to eat, and therefore you're not gaining any pleasure from eating, right?

Just like when you're really, really full and somebody says, here, have another pork chop.

It's not that pleasurable, right?

So yes, you can use that to squelch it, but the problem is that the focus so far has been so much on diet, right?

Weight loss is diet, diet, diet.

It's not.

A lot of it is environmental.

A lot of it is emotional.

Look at Italy.

An Italian has very low risk of obesity in Italy, right?

The difference, a lot of the difference, is that they don't eat everywhere they go.

You don't see Italians sort of walking on the street eating.

You don't see them, you know, at their desk eating.

doing work and eating, right?