America’s Obesity Crisis: Is Ozempic a Cure or a Cover-Up? | Calley Means and Tyna Moore
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Coming up on this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show. Now, according to this theory, as long as you eat fewer calories than you expend, you'll lose weight, right? Well, it doesn't matter if the calories come from a thousand calories of soda or a thousand calories of broccoli, all calories are the same in this model. Now, the implicit message here is that you're overweight because you eat too much and you don't exercise enough. In other words, it's your fault because you don't have the willpower. And the subtext is that you're lazy glutton. I don't believe that. This is just nonsense. You know, I often remind people that sleep is not just a luxury, it's a necessity. It impacts your energy, focus, metabolism, and overall health. You might not know this, but poor sleep used to dominate my life, leaving me exhausted and unable to function at my best. That all changed with sleep breakthrough from Bioptimizers. These capsules are scientifically formulated to help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up feeling truly rested.
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And if you're looking for curated, trusted supplements and health products for your health journey, visit my website, drhyman.com, for my website store and a summary of my favorite and thoroughly tested products. How did obesity triple in the last 60 years from about 13% of the population to 43% of the population? I can guarantee you it's not an ozempic deficiency. Functional medicine provides a better framework for understanding root causes, particularly around obesity, metabolic dysfunction, and type 2 diabetes, and provides a way more sustainable and affordable treatment that works. I've seen this over and over again. We're going to talk about that in a minute. So let's get deeper into what's going on here in America.
Why is this drug important and why are we seeing such increased use of it? Well, we have a problem. There's no denying that. As I said, 93% of Americans have some type of metabolic dysfunction because of poor diet and lifestyle. That means only 6.8% of Americans are metabolically healthy, meaning they're not somewhere on the continuum of uh type 2 diabetes meaning they don't have high blood pressure high cholesterol high blood sugar or overweight or had a heart attack or stroke so only 6.8 of the population meet that criteria the rest of us are metabolically unhealthy and somewhere in that continuum six and ten have a chronic disease four and ten have two there's over 400 million people around the world who are diabetic
90% obviously are type 2 diabetes or more. 40 million Americans or one out of every 10 Americans has type 2 diabetes, which is terrifying to me. As I mentioned, over a billion people worldwide are obese and over 2 billion are overweight. 43% of US adults are obese. 75% are overweight. 40% of kids are overweight. This is really a problem.
25%.
And the obesity rates are staggering. Teenage obesity is at over 22% from between 12 and 19 year olds. And as I mentioned, 40% of kids are overweight. This is not a problem that's because of genetics. It's a problem because of our toxic food environment. And the cure isn't a drug, especially a drug that has serious side effects and needs to be taken for a long time or lifelong.
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