Jamie Kern Lima
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Can you get GLP-1s covered by insurance if you're not obese?
It's getting harder.
Yeah.
Which now with the obesity genes, all these other things, they're proving it's not willpower.
She's just lazy until... I believed that my whole life.
Like, oh, I'm gaining weight.
It's definitely my fault.
You know, I've been tested for the obesity genes now and I actually have two of them.
And I'm like, oh, you know, and then your brain works differently.
Right.
There's so much science.
The entire biological drive.
Do you prescribe both to your patients or you predominantly do GLP-1s?
If somebody's doctor says no.
No.
If somebody's, like if they go to their doctor and say, I'm really, really interested.
You're not working hard enough.
In GLP-1s and they go, oh, you should just work out and eat better.
What are some of the resources that exist online?
Because there's now through telehealth, you can get prescriptions in other ways.