Dr. Rhonda Patrick

And you're also getting the side effect benefit of appetite regulation.

So maybe you're not going to be eating as much as well.

Maybe it's just easier to not eat as much.

So, yeah, what you're saying essentially is that the improved metabolic health is probably what's driving the longevity benefits.

Yeah, I would agree.

That makes the most sense.

And it is important to obviously keep everything in context as well.

Obviously, there's people that are obese and metabolically unhealthy that have really just changed their lives, right?

But the question is,

Do they have to keep taking it?

On any dose of it or the high dose?

And this is after the weight loss and after being on the drug.

I think...

I mean, that's a pretty balanced view.

I think so too.

Yeah.

I mean, there's definitely more to discuss here, but we'd have to have another three-hour conversation.

So I kind of want to just circle back and end on, you know, you were talking about metabolic health being a predictor of longevity and, you know, there's metabolic health and inflammation is another one that I've seen where it predicts, which they're linked, right?

They're very much linked.

So-