Dr. Mehmet Oz
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Because right now, what's the number one zip code for weight loss?
Drugs.
Number one zip code.
Upper East Side of Manhattan.
I was about to say, it's got to be Manhattan or L.A.?
L.A.
's number two.
Okay.
Because they're vain.
They're vain.
They want to lose two pounds for their daughter's wedding, and they can afford it.
$1,200 is a rounding error.
Right?
But $1,200 for someone that's not making money, you're just not going to take the drug.
And they're the ones that die early.
The life expectancy in rural America, I'll go back to them,
and vulnerable populations nine years shorter than yours in the same country.
Well, the drug actually came, it's a poisonous chemical, a venom actually, that was deciphered and found to have an impact on some of these core cells
in the appetite system of the body, which is so fundamental to who we are, that it's very hard to hack the appetite.
But GLP-1s, they're just the tip of the iceberg.