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Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome to another

episode of Dr. Rucho Radio. Today I spoke with Dr. Barbara Corky, who is Professor Emeritus of Medicine

and Biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine,

and she is the director of obesity research at the Obesity Research.

And this was a conversation that I was hoping to give us maybe a bit more of a nuanced perspective on

metabolic health and body composition and being overweight. There's this one perspective that I

think is overly simplistic, which is it's all about getting yourself on a low carb diet and making sure

you're not doing too much cardio, and then you'll have a perfect body composition.

But as we've talked about in the podcast before, that doesn't seem to account for many

cases.

And we've had some obesity researchers who seem to be a little bit more kind of in the box,

squarely by the data, Stefan Gine and Eric Trexler.

And they paint this picture of weight gain is solely a people are eating more and not moving enough perspective.

But that also doesn't account for clear observations that I think we can all say, well, I know

someone who lives a terrible lifestyle and they're thin and I know someone else who does

everything right and they're overweight.

And this seems to be where Barbara's research has been pointed.

And so this is a great chance to speak with someone who's in academic medicine,

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