Oprah Winfrey

It is a disease.

And this is one of the most astonishing revelations of my lifetime, I have to say.

So I want to introduce you to Dr. Anya Yasteroff.

She is an endocrinologist and professor at the Yale School of Medicine.

And hi, Anya.

For 15 years, Dr. Anya has been at the forefront of the research on the new GLP-1-based medications.

And now she has written a book.

And I tell my weight loss story in the book.

And the book is called Enough.

Enough.

Your health and weight and what it's like to be free.

So my hope is that this book will help all of you who are on your own weight journey, whether you are taking the new GLP-1 medications or not.

It is the book that I wish I had when I'd started and wish I'd had long ago when I didn't even know that obesity was a disease.

So welcome back to the podcast, Dr. Anya.

Thank you so much for having me.

You have been studying this now for decades, and this is the thing that struck me, that you all who've been studying this have known that obesity was a disease, at least for the past 10 years.

OK, OK.

And how did we all miss the memo?

I get that part.

So what we all want to know, and for you to explain in as layman's terms as possible, why it is a disease.