1:37:23Obesity Is a Brain Disease, Not a Willpower Problem
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What if obesity was never about willpower? Dr. Matthias Tschöp, President of LMU Munich, co-discovered ghrelin and the hormone science behind Ozempic, Mounjaro, and retatrutide. This episode explains how GLP-1 weight loss drugs actually work, why obesity is now understood as a brain disease rather than a failure of willpower, and what comes next for anti-obesity medication, for anyone trying to understand the science behind the biggest medical story in a generation.
Topics: The 1994 leptin discovery that started the field · Hunting the hunger hormone and finding it in the stomach, not the brain · Ghrelin confirmed: the textbook hunger hormone · Why genetics forced science to call obesity a brain disease · 2011: the GIP/GLP-1 combination behind today's leading drugs · The number nobody thought possible: 29-30% weight loss
