There’s been a lot of talk about obesity drugs like Ozempic. Besides the breathtaking conflicts of interest, Ozempic concerns me because it furthers the great lie in healthcare that diseases are siloed.
It is increasingly clear that heart disease, diabetes, many forms of cancer, dementia, and most other chronic diseases are actually roots of the same branch.
Treating these in silos (and saying conditions that are new in the past 50 years, like obesity, are genetic) has been profitable but not effective – these conditions have all gone up, and life expectancy has gone down as we spend more money — because we are not attacking the root cause!
The same is true with obesity. If a child takes Ozempic and continues to eat unhealthy food and be sedentary – they will get other diseases because our cells continue to be fed poison. Until we move healthcare policy to realize food is at the foundation of health (and decrease subsidizing bandaid drugs), we will not get better!
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