Robert Whitfield MD discusses how obesity drugs that alter behavior could reshape society. Since obesity is widespread and habit-driven, medications that change eating patterns might transform public health dramatically within the next decade.
This is just like, I sat back one day and I was like, oh, my God. A drug that changes behavior but in the correct way, as far as I'm concerned, has never been brought to market with this kind of clear side effect.
I mean, this obesity is like the world epidemic, right? Almost everyone, you know, someone has it. It's not like it's a rare disease or something that is temporary. Right. This is something that builds over a lifetime. And your behavioral choices, you get stuck. You don't want to change it. So you had, you know, bad habits, continue to build. So now we have such a large population size of people using it who have similar tendencies and habits, now you're going to start seeing both the positives and negatives.
Yeah, just amazing to sit back as a, you know, you look at it like, wow, that's going to have a lot. I mean, it's probably in 10 years, we have a little show and say, what had the most impact? BLB1 and Agonist. Like, they changed everything. Because ultimately when you change behavior, you change the outcome.
