163. Does Your DNA Determine Your Weight?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 17 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Shockingly, a lot of people walking down the street do think like, |
| 0:05.5 | oh, is that Tom Brady? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Angela Duckworth. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Mike Marn. |
| 0:10.0 | And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
| 0:13.0 | Today on the show is obesity a matter of nature or nurture? |
| 0:18.0 | Wow, you just got the gajillion jeans and gajillion experiences. |
| 0:31.0 | Angela, I'm so excited to talk to you about today's question because it is about something |
| 0:42.0 | that is, I think, kind of taking over the cultural zeitgeist right now. |
| 0:46.0 | Oh, and what would that be, Taylor Swift? |
| 0:49.0 | It is about this new wagovi ozempic craze, which maybe you've heard about. |
| 0:53.0 | There are all these people using it to lose lots of weight. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes, I have heard of this miracle drug. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, so here's the deal. |
| 1:00.0 | It's sort of changing the face of obesity because obesity has generally been viewed as an |
| 1:04.9 | issue of like personal responsibility. |
| 1:06.8 | You don't move enough. |
| 1:07.8 | You don't eat right, stuff like that. |
| 1:09.8 | Right. |
| 1:10.8 | I remember seeing these headlines like this new drug shows that it's not willpower that |
| 1:15.2 | really we should think about weight as a medical condition and it's not behavior or motivation. |
| 1:22.0 | Yes. |
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