Dr. Rhonda Patrick

But that doesn't make it impossible.

It just means you have to put in more effort.

And, you know, doing intermittent fasting or counting calories does require effort on your part, whereas taking a pill –

does not, the pill does it for you, right?

And so, you know, it all comes down to risk versus benefit, right?

Like if you have someone who's obese, obesity itself accelerates the aging process

It increases the risk of 13 different types of cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease.

If you are obese, you are on a bad trajectory.

And anything that's going to help you lose that weight is going to be beneficial for both.

Really?

No, no, no, no.

Absolutely not.

That's not what I'm saying at all.

I think it's better if you can do it yourself.

I think that you're going to avoid any adverse side effects.

When you lose a lot of weight really rapidly, you can increase the risk of gallbladder stones.

GLP-1 receptor agonists are associated with, theoretically, an increased risk of thyroid cancer.

All that's preclinical data, though, so there's not really human studies showing that.

But it's still a thing to think about, right?

If it's causing it in animals, we just may not have that longitudinal...