Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen

I want to say that I'm sorry on behalf of the healthcare providers. We didn't know better and we failed you and I've been humbled by my patients. I've learned and hear their stories and we got it wrong. We got it all wrong, but there is help. We're learning more. Science advances like everything, right? Medicine is an evolving science and we are aware and we will do everything we can to fix it.

obesity increases your risk of mortality. There's more than 15 cancers that obesity is their biggest risk, including breast cancer. You have more risk of developing breast cancer than alcohol, hormone replacement therapy, or genetics. It's obesity. Obesity is the number one cause of pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, thyroid cancer. The number one cause?

obesity increases your risk of mortality. There's more than 15 cancers that obesity is their biggest risk, including breast cancer. You have more risk of developing breast cancer than alcohol, hormone replacement therapy, or genetics. It's obesity. Obesity is the number one cause of pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, thyroid cancer. The number one cause?

obesity increases your risk of mortality. There's more than 15 cancers that obesity is their biggest risk, including breast cancer. You have more risk of developing breast cancer than alcohol, hormone replacement therapy, or genetics. It's obesity. Obesity is the number one cause of pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, thyroid cancer. The number one cause?

The highest risk for developing, yes.

The highest risk for developing, yes.

The highest risk for developing, yes.

So... By reducing obesity, by treating obesity, we are going to have less chronic diseases. We've built specialists. We created medical specialties from the complications of obesity. So we will have less diabetes, less hypertension, less cardiovascular disease. If we treat obesity now, we will have less incidence of the cancers that I mentioned.

So... By reducing obesity, by treating obesity, we are going to have less chronic diseases. We've built specialists. We created medical specialties from the complications of obesity. So we will have less diabetes, less hypertension, less cardiovascular disease. If we treat obesity now, we will have less incidence of the cancers that I mentioned.

So... By reducing obesity, by treating obesity, we are going to have less chronic diseases. We've built specialists. We created medical specialties from the complications of obesity. So we will have less diabetes, less hypertension, less cardiovascular disease. If we treat obesity now, we will have less incidence of the cancers that I mentioned.

And this is a very interesting thing because you as a non-medical professional have felt like that, judging and assuming we as a healthcare providers, as doctors, we did the same, right? When patients were coming to us for help and to play devil's advocate, we didn't have the training. We didn't have the knowledge that obesity is not a self-inflicted disease, right?

And this is a very interesting thing because you as a non-medical professional have felt like that, judging and assuming we as a healthcare providers, as doctors, we did the same, right? When patients were coming to us for help and to play devil's advocate, we didn't have the training. We didn't have the knowledge that obesity is not a self-inflicted disease, right?

And this is a very interesting thing because you as a non-medical professional have felt like that, judging and assuming we as a healthcare providers, as doctors, we did the same, right? When patients were coming to us for help and to play devil's advocate, we didn't have the training. We didn't have the knowledge that obesity is not a self-inflicted disease, right?

So what we've learned is that obesity is a multifactorial chronic disease. And I'll deconstruct that. Multifactorial, meaning that there's more than one cause leading to somebody to struggle with weight or have obesity. I like to break them into five pieces. One, lifestyle, exercise, sedentarism, diet. but that's one piece of the five. The other one is genetics, right?

So what we've learned is that obesity is a multifactorial chronic disease. And I'll deconstruct that. Multifactorial, meaning that there's more than one cause leading to somebody to struggle with weight or have obesity. I like to break them into five pieces. One, lifestyle, exercise, sedentarism, diet. but that's one piece of the five. The other one is genetics, right?

So what we've learned is that obesity is a multifactorial chronic disease. And I'll deconstruct that. Multifactorial, meaning that there's more than one cause leading to somebody to struggle with weight or have obesity. I like to break them into five pieces. One, lifestyle, exercise, sedentarism, diet. but that's one piece of the five. The other one is genetics, right?

You can have a genetic mutation, but also it can run in the family. So it's two different, right? Then the third one, hormonal changes. We have PCOS, perimenopause, menopause in women. Then we have aging. That's unchangeable. Nothing that we can do about it yet. But as we age, our metabolism slows down. We lose muscle mass. We tend to store more body fat. And then we have environmental factors.

You can have a genetic mutation, but also it can run in the family. So it's two different, right? Then the third one, hormonal changes. We have PCOS, perimenopause, menopause in women. Then we have aging. That's unchangeable. Nothing that we can do about it yet. But as we age, our metabolism slows down. We lose muscle mass. We tend to store more body fat. And then we have environmental factors.

You can have a genetic mutation, but also it can run in the family. So it's two different, right? Then the third one, hormonal changes. We have PCOS, perimenopause, menopause in women. Then we have aging. That's unchangeable. Nothing that we can do about it yet. But as we age, our metabolism slows down. We lose muscle mass. We tend to store more body fat. And then we have environmental factors.

And those are on its own. We can deconstruct that too, because in environmental factors, we can talk about the food industry. Right. We can talk about obesogenic environments. So meaning places where the walking is not available or accessible or easy, where people have to drive everywhere or even working from home now. Right. So there's less opportunities to being active.