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I want to shift gears and go back to something you said at the beginning of the podcast

because you said, you know, you were talking about addiction. You said you don't believe

people get obese from eating food.

Again, also a very controversial statement because we were like, oh, how else can you get

obese?

But let's go more into the obesity side because there's a lot of people listening to this

that they're going to, I mean, many people struggling with obesity.

And I mean, it's obviously one of the, you know, one of the major problems we face today. And that just represents general metabolic health. Just one,

manifestations of it in my mind, the same thing with arthritis and a lot of these other things

that we sort of thought were, you know, I found out that things like arthritis in many cases

are what I consider orthopedic manifestations

and metabolic disease in many, many cases, not all, but many.

Talk about the etiology of obesity and how you sort of believe that to be laid out.

You know, the way it works, Sean, is this, that anything, any element that is vital to human existence,

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