Dr. Mehmet Oz
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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.
There are more and more sophisticated ways for us to be able to address not just appetite, but addiction, addictive behavior drops of GLP-1s.
So, the newer drugs are going to be even more effective at that.
Reddit True Tide is the one you bought.
For example, Reddit True Tide.
But the other thing I would say is the form factor matters.
In sending someone an injection that goes bad in the warm weather, a lot of wastage, you don't know the exact dose, the pills make it like most other drugs.
and now the truck the price point is much lower as well so it's easier for us to deliver that at scale to the american people so it does leapfrog us beyond today's problems this is a big theme of our administration don't bother fixing today's broken pipes if the world you're building doesn't have pipes
And that's what we're doing with drugs like semaglutide and terzepatide, which is the Lilly product.
We're also getting these companies to onshore their production facility, hire American workers, stay innovative.
This is why, again, the president doesn't want us hurting innovation.
The same day we did the first Most Favored Nation drug event, we had an executive order on childhood cancer.
20 beautiful children, smiley bright eyes, all of whom, all of whom should have been ghosts.
They survived because technologies were afforded to them.
They don't exist in other parts of the world to keep them alive.
That's our goal.