Have you ever wondered if there are more natural ways to lower your high blood pressure,

guard against Alzheimer's, lose weight, feel better?

Well, it turns out there is.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we have the final episode in our series on OZembek, and we ask,

what's a safer and cheaper way to lose weight than GOP1 drugs?

Can we drug our way out of the obesity crisis?

Are these GOP1 drugs the answer to the obesity epidemic?

The head of the European Association for the study of obesity was pretty bullish,

conveniently failing to disclose that his group had received millions of dollars from the drug maker.

But doesn't getting a tiny weekly injection sound far easier than getting all sweaty in the gym?

Do these game-changing new medications make lifestyle-based treatment of obesity obsolete?

Let's ask those paid by the two main GLP-1 drug makers, which now have a combined net worth

greater than a trillion dollars.

The World Obesity Federation, which evidently just got a million dollars from the Ozemic

company, published a consensus

statement in one of its journals favoring the definition of obesity as a disease.

This designation may not benefit patients, but it will benefit doctors and drug companies

when health insurance and clinical guidelines promote treatment with drugs and surgery.

A concern is that labeling obesity as a disease

risks reducing our autonomy, disempowering and robbing us with the intrinsic motivation

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