Dr. Tara Narula

First of all, we know that overweight or obesity is associated with breast cancer risk, particularly in post-menopausal women.

So before menopause, the ovaries produce most of your estrogen.

Fat cells produce a little bit, but after menopause, your fat cells produce the estrogen for the majority of women who are, again, post-menopausal, and that circulating higher level of estrogen could fuel breast cancer.

That's number one.

Number two, overweight or obesity is a pro-inflammatory state.

We know that inflammation is associated with risk of cancers.

And obesity is associated with elevated insulin.

Insulin has also been shown to drive certain cancers, particularly breast cancer.

So when you think about what the GLPs do, reduce weight, reduce inflammation, and help with insulin sensitivity, it makes sense that that could potentially have an effect on the risk of breast cancer.

Yeah.

You know, Mel, we have one precious life, one.

And in the time that we're here on earth, everybody wants to be able to take the most out of every moment, every experience, every day.

I know that's what I want.

That's what my family wants.

That's what my patients tell me they want is that quality of life.

The problem is that, as you know, during life, things happen.

Things go wrong.

Things go bad.

We face challenges.

And so for many people, that challenge, that traumatic event, whatever that may be, a divorce, a financial loss, a medical diagnosis, it stuns us and we get frozen and stuck.