The Hello, welcome back to the podcast.

I'm your host, Evan Brand.

I'm a certified functional medicine practitioner, a functional nutritional therapy practitioner, talking with you today about a subject that's a little vain, but it's real. And so many women,

billions of dollars are spent by women, primarily, that want to avoid being flabby. You see these

cool sculpting places and liposuction and all these advanced medical spas. They just pop up everywhere.

I mean, even where I live, I just see it. Every time I'm out, I see these medical spas, they just pop up everywhere. I mean, even where I live,

I just see it. Every time I'm out, I see these new spas popping up and they make it to where

you don't need to make any changes. You just come in, you pay whatever price it is, thousands of

dollars, you come get your lips filled, your cheeks filled, you get your belly sucked,

you get your body sculpted.

And it's just insane that that's the way that we approach our physical bodies now.

And we treat it as if it's a medical procedure and that there's something wrong and you

just need this device and this tool to sculpt you and you're

going to be perfect and we're going to do this to your chin and this to your butt and this to your

cheeks it's just it's nasty and don't even get me started on implants i did a whole podcast on

this with dr andrew campbell all about breast implant illness there's surgeons now that dedicate their entire careers to doing

ex-plants where they're removing implants. So I just encourage you to just be natural. And what we're

going to be talking about today is why can't you put on muscle or things that are happening

biologically, biochemically that are creating obesity or creating this flab that so many

people pick on. They beat themselves up and cover themselves up and hide themselves in black clothes

and flowy clothes and oversized clothes to hide themselves. And obesity is a massive, massive problem.

I mean, over 30% were headed into 40, even 50% obesity territory, which is a massive, massive problem. I mean, over 30% we're headed into 40,

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