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The Sword and the Knot
The Sword and the Knot: What the GLP-1 Revolution Is Really About
For the first time in the modern era, the U.S. adult obesity rate has fallen — and almost everyone is telling the wrong story about why.
In this episode, metabolic and bariatric surgeon Dr. Robin Blackstone argues that the GLP-1 drugs didn't solve the biology of obesity — surgery had already proven that decades ago. What the drugs solved was the politics. They moved the Overton window and made it sayable, at last, that obesity is a chronic, biological disease.
But the story is bigger than obesity. From focused sound that…
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