Dr. Sanjay Gupta

And then there is additional benefit because with the weight loss, for every kilo you lose, your blood pressure comes down by one to two millimeters of mercury, your systolic blood pressure.

So not only is the weight loss helpful, but weight loss plus exercise, there are data to suggest that they benefit.

Yeah, you're going to reduce your blood pressure and you're going to reduce your reliance on medications, some of which also increase your blood pressure.

What we're not doing is we're not making a healthier population at this point in time.

We're making it a medicated population.

And I think we have to start going back and focusing on the things that we can do to make our population healthier, slimmer, more mobile, less stressed, less medicated.

And that is the way we will achieve something different to what we are at this point in time.

Well, the first thing is they'll feel better.

And that feeling better will become noticeable after only a few weeks, I suspect.

It's very dramatic.

And if for no other reason, rather than just saying, oh, I'll do these things because my number will come down, you should do it because you will feel better.

You will have a better quality of life.

If you feel more rested, you're happier, you're putting good stuff in your body, you're feeling more confident, you go to the doctor, the blood pressure will be lower.

I've been really looking forward to this.

Now, I'm a huge fan of yours, a huge fan of the show, and honored that you'd have me.

Thank you.

Most people are going to have pain at some point in their lives.

But this idea that it has to become chronic pain, that it has to last, that is where the intervention can occur.

And I think we haven't spent much time talking about this.

People develop acute pain, and for some reason, it persists.