Dr. Ronda Marie Chakolis-Hassan

I have a BMI over 27.

I have a family history of, you know, cardiovascular disease.

I guarantee you, you probably don't want to be in the room with me when I'm sleeping because I snore and have some sleep apnea.

So even based on clinical guidelines, right, I could walk in and very much be a candidate for these medicines.

Here's the thing.

Is this the best thing?

Is this first-line therapy?

Sleep apnea?

Yeah, maybe I get a CPAP machine and actually use it.

You know, those cardiovascular risk factors that I have in my family, continue to exercise and do –

do different things.

And then let's get to the bigger thing, BMI.

I have a strong suspicion that we need to really revisit how that's calculated.

My waist is under 30, but when I go in to the doctor, like I'm on the obese side, right?

And again, we're not looking at those whole things because they're looking at just my height.

in my weight, not even my muscle mass content or any of those other things.

So again, you know, I don't want to put doctors in a bad place, but they're only going on like, oh my goodness, this has potential for this.

And we've seen this all the time in the pharmaceutical industry.

We've seen it with even some of the medications that are used for cholesterol.

Well, they've