Obesity

“In theory, you could eradicate obesity.”

“So my prediction is that we are going to look at this problem the same way we look at obesity. We're gonna, like, look at this stuff, and we're gonna say, there are some people who can just put it down and just walk away. You know, there are some people like, …”

“If you look at any data in the US healthcare outcomes are horrible. Like, they're bad, they're getting worse, like obesity, you know, heart disease, all of these conditions are basically at record levels and continue to go up.”

“In a scarcity era, you can consume as much and hoard it because you don't have much. So we would hoard information. We would also hoard food. We get a food, we'll just eat it because we don't know when we'll get now. Today, we are applying the same mental mode…”

“Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, obesity, that these are all symptoms of unhealthy skeletal muscle”

“The anti-fat, high-carb diets, which we were feeding people for 30 years, and I think most people don't believe in that anymore, but it led to a big part of the obesity curve, glycemic index kind of thing.”

“It also, by the way, shut down the debate as to why people are fat. It's because they eat too much.”

“This peptide acts at the level of the brain and the gut to make people feel more full. It also, by the way, shut down the debate as to why people are fat. It's because they eat too much. Right? They eat more than they burn. Remember people used to argue about …”

“They showed in one study that if you have even five friends on the internet, just internet, Proximity, not in real person who are struggling with obesity, your chances of becoming obese are exponentially higher.”

“Because obesity is a standalone risk factor for multiple types of cancer.”

“Another one is obesity. Radically decreases testosterone levels.”

“There's a statistic that found that if you have one friend that you're close to become obese, you have a 38% higher chance of becoming obese, because we become the people we spend the most time with.”

“Over time, specifically after roughly the 19 fifties and moving up in an exponentially increasing curve. What you could call the price palatability of food has skyrocketed.”

“The biggest factor of who's getting super obese and who's not is probably just people's genetically determined, largely genetically determined baseline hunger signaling and food pleasure response.”

“Between the year I was born and the year I turned 21, obesity doubled in the United States, and then in the next 20 years, severe obesity doubled again.”

“Obesity explodes everywhere that makes one change. It's not where people suddenly lack willpower or become lazy. It's where people move from mostly eating a diet based on whole fresh foods that they prepare on the day they eat them. To mostly eating a diet of …”

“If you're obese when you're 18 years old, you have a 70% chance of developing diabetes in your life, and diabetes, type two diabetes, knocks 15 years off your life on average”

“Is all the issues that we are seeing, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's, is this all a fat problem? No. It begins in skeletal muscle first. Decades before.”

“You know what's going to happen is it's going to become super cool to be super fat. Like once it's too easy to be skinny.”

“The rise of obesity in Western societies is basically an exact inverse match to the graphs of the decline of smoking.”

“Sadly, it affects 42% of the American population, which is remarkable”

“I don't think that 40 years ago people had that much more willpower than they do today. I just think that the environment has gotten so much worse that you would need more willpower today to fight the gravitational pull Of this environment.”

“Obesity is not going away unless you let American people eat whatever they want, whenever they want, as much as they want with no lifestyle changes, no exercise, and absolutely no effort on their parts whatsoever.”

“The whole lockdown thing made a couple of problems that are inherent to the US and to the US labor force worse, most notably obesity, which prevents a lot of people from holding the type of manufacturing jobs where you have to be sitting up and doing a lot of …”

“I mean, the world had doubled in obesity between 2002 1015, and now it's tripled to three billion people by 2030.”

“Almost 80% of every single person that was hospitalized because of COVID was clinically obese.”

“They took pairs of twins that were discordant for obesity. One twin obese and one twin was... And they transplanted their microbiome into germ-free mice. Germ-free mice are mice that are born and raised in sterile conditions, and they don't have a gut microbio…”

“This idea that excess calories is what makes us fat, Is the, and I, I'm embarrassed that I ever, never thought of this before. It's logically equivalent to saying, you know, excess money makes us rich. Or I don't know, scoring excess points in a football game …”

“Nutrition science from the 18 sixties to the 19 twenties was completely dominated by, as all sciences are, by what they could measure, the technologies available to make observations, and all they had were they had devices called calorimeters, Where they can m…”

“The German and Austrian clinicians, and Germany and Austria was, you know, these people were doing far and away the best medical science in the world at the time, and they pioneered all the fields of science relevant to Obesity, so metabolism, genetics endocri…”

“The medical textbook, the most seminal textbook, and the Harrison's Principles of Medicine, I think it's called, and the chapter on obesity is written by the, you know, a very, very smart researcher named Jeff Flyer, who just, until recently, was dean of Harva…”

“Obesity and diabetes cost, the healthcare system in the U.S., the estimate is a billion dollars in direct medical costs a day.”

“The massive obesity and type two diabetes epidemic has actually nothing to do with lack of willpower or that all these obese and diabetic people can only blame themselves for their condition.”