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Adam Graham

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Introducing S4:EP4 Appetite for Change: The Obesity Epidemic Meets Biotech from Unseen Upside: Investments Beyond Their Returns.

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Obesity is a global health crisis, with over 650 million adults affected worldwide. This drives massive economic and disease burdens. Yet new treatment options like GLP-1 drugs offer hope. This episode analyzes the investment landscape and future of obesity therapeutics, focusing on transformational GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic that curb appetite. Join us as we investigate the promise and challenges of emerging anti-obesity drugs, learn about one patient’s journey taking them, and discover what the future of weight loss medicine could look like. You'll hear from leaders in the space as well as a current patient taking these medications. Guests include:

Rod Wong, Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer at RTW Investments
Raymond Stevens, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer at Structure Therapeutics
Dean Dimizas, Partner and Managing Director at Cambridge Associates
Kathleen Mikaelian, Patient

Unseen Upside: Investments Beyond Their Returns is developed in partnership with PRX, an award-winning podcast media company. Cambridge Associates is a global investment firm that works with endowments, foundations, healthcare systems, pension plans, and private clients to implement and manage custom investment portfolios that aim to generate outperformance and maximize their impact on the world. Cambridge Associates delivers a range of portfolio management services, including outsourced CIO, non-discretionary portfolio management, staff extension, and asset class mandates.

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0:00.0	I've always gone up and down and weight, you know, I've been really heavy in the past,
0:08.0	lost, gained some back, lost it again.
0:12.0	According to recent data by the World Health Organization,
0:15.0	more than 1 billion people, including children,
0:19.0	are struggling with their weight worldwide.
0:22.0	Just in the United States, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC,
0:27.0	says that about 4 out of 10 Americans are overweight.
0:31.0	People don't appreciate how difficult it is for overweight people to lose
0:36.9	weight because so much of our social interactions are revolving around food.
0:43.4	But people's relationship with food is just the tip of the iceberg.
0:48.4	Obesity is a complex medical problem that increases the risk of many other diseases like diabetes, high blood
0:55.8	pressure, heart and liver disease, sleep apnea, cancer, and many more.
1:00.8	It is a real problem.
1:03.0	A lot of people think obesity is cosmetic.
1:06.0	It's not.
1:07.0	It's a disease.
1:08.0	And we need to acknowledge that that's the first step in solving the problem.
1:12.0	Obesity is increasingly being recognized as a the and with that has come a new generation of pharmaceutical interventions.
1:27.0	I've always had trouble with my weight.
1:31.0	Now with Wigovi, I've seen real change. I've lost weight. Now with Wigovi I've seen real change. I've lost weight and I'm keeping it off.
1:37.4	Mongaro helps your body regulate blood sugar and Mangeiro can help decrease how much food you eat.
1:44.0	Three out of four people reached an A1C of less than 7%.
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