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Obesity Is a Brain Disease, Not a Willpower Problem
What if obesity was never about willpower?
Dr. Matthias Tschöp, President of LMU Munich, co-discovered ghrelin and the hormone science behind Ozempic, Mounjaro, and retatrutide. This episode explains how GLP-1 weight loss drugs actually work, why obesity is now understood as a brain disease rather than a failure of willpower, and what comes next for anti-obesity medication, for anyone trying to understand the science behind the biggest medical story in a generation.
This conversation covers the 1994 discovery of leptin, the 2000 discovery of ghrelin in the stomach, how Tschöp’s lab combined…
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