I ran the FDA, and here I can't control my weight. So I ended up after COVID, 40 pounds heavier. And I didn't like myself. I said, look, I got to understand why do I keep on gaining this path? And what is it the root of this problem? Twenty-five percent of us are going to develop heart failure. Half of us are pre-diabetic. 25 percent of us are going to have stroke. We're going to talk about why we're in a metabolic crisis in America,

why our food system is so messed up,

and what we can do about it both from the personal and the policy perspective. David Kessler is a physician, an author, a public health leader, who has served as chief science officer of the White House COVID-19 response team, and previously as the commissioner of the FDA. He's a pediatrician by training. He also served as the dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco. It's not your fault, you're fat, because the food industry wants to blame you. And that is as far from the biological truth as you could possibly get. I think it's important to change our paradigm of how we think about addiction. I filed this petition with HHS. I think

FDA has no choice. It's going to have to get its act together and say, how do we change this

food environment? They're going to throw hundreds of millions of dollars of legal arguments against

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for those of that you don't know, you have a very storied career. You were the FDA commission

a Democrat and a Republican president, Clinton and Bush, and you have also got a law

degree from the University of Chicago. So you've got this really interesting kind of

juxtaposition of medicine and law. It's allowed you to take on some really big issues. And you were the

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