Do These Quick Weight Loss Hacks Work?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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There's no shortage of products and procedures promising a quick way to weight loss. But do they work? Or is it all just marketing and hype? In this episode, Sanjay speaks with Dr. Mikhail Varshavski – better known as Doctor Mike — who has made it his mission to debunk medical misinformation. He’ll dive into popular weight loss methods, how they supposedly work, and the truth behind cleanses, juices, tummy teas, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So it's David's first week. Welcome David. Actually to kick things off David, maybe you can let us know your thoughts on the productivity portfolio flips around the spending dilip.
0:10.0	Okay, sorry? Give us your initial POV on the productivity portfolio Moomu make much more with a feather this morning?
0:17.5	Oh, that, yeah, the uh...
0:20.5	Does industry talk make zero sense to you?
0:22.8	Find collaborative articles with tips from the LinkedIn community to help you navigate those awkward moments.
0:27.8	Making work makes sense?
0:29.1	LinkedIn knows how.
0:30.2	I think the marketers have gotten very clever with the way that they studied human
0:37.2	psychology and understand what the power influence can do to an individual by putting certain buzzwords without even making a claim on a product.
0:48.0	For people who are looking to get healthy, maybe even shed some pounds, you got to be careful because there's a lot of bad
0:54.7	information out there. So today I decided to turn to someone who could help us
0:59.0	separate the facts from the fiction. They know that if they trigger that insecurity, they can sell a product,
1:05.0	especially if that product comes with a shortcut.
1:09.0	That's Macau Varshofsky, better known as Dr. Mike.
1:13.4	He's a practicing family medicine physician who you might have come across on YouTube.
1:17.7	His videos there are dedicated to debunking misinformation and also educating viewers
1:22.4	about their health.
1:26.0	Over the last several years he's given considerable thought to how misleading and false information
1:31.0	can seep into our lives. It's something known as concept creep, and it can be really
1:36.9	harmful. In a TEDx talk he gave back in 2017, he coined this term ICA experts, or I know all experts.
1:47.0	There are too many of these experts out there claiming to have all of the answers
1:52.0	when the rest of the scientific community has questions.
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