Dr. Ronda Marie Chakolis-Hassan

So what we see now, even with the GLP-1s, yes, you will lose weight.

However, if you don't look at the behaviors, if you look at the data, people rebound very quickly.

It's the same thing that people have had when we initially thought in terms of weight loss that gastric sleeves and gastric bypasses are also the magic bullet.

Five to 10 years out, a lot of patients, if they don't get those behaviors, they've not only gained back the weight that they've lost, but they've even gone back to their baseline.

So hopefully that's a good start.

I'm interested in what my colleague kind of thinks about GLP-1s, Dr. Jackson.

I think that's a great question, Clarence.

First of all, I kind of hinted at it as side effects, right?

And now you're starting to hear and see terms like ozempic face.

You're starting to see things, other side effects in terms of even how it's affecting female reproductive anatomy.

You're hearing things about vision.

You're hearing things about possible thyroid cancer.

I think the conversation is what is health?

What is medication?

Medication is a tool, as Dr. Jackson said, but when it's not paired with other things, that's where we get into problems.

The other thing is there is nothing that is out there that is without risk.

And so a lot of times we're not even having that conversation about what is the risk and the benefits of taking something.

There's risk and benefits with anything.

And I think because people have this desire to want the quick fix.

And again, we all are very aware that TikTok and other platforms have made this be where people are like, oh my gosh, this is the best thing ever.