Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 2002: Big Pharma Hates Fit & Healthy People

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

A discussion of claims that obesity is mostly due to genetics. (1:30) Should a pharmaceutical company be for profit? (7:38) What is Big Pharma’s motivation behind these claims? (10:09) What does obesity contribute to? (15:52) Is capitalism to blame? (21:14) Lifestyle is EVERYTHING! (25:54) Mind Pump’s predictions for what’s to come. (27:35) What has caused the dramatic rise in obesity? (38:53) How to stop the cycle of obesity and make permanent changes. (45:26) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit MASSZYMES by biOptimizers for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code MINDPUMP10 at checkout** February Promotion: MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, and MAPS HIIT are all 50% off! **Code FEB50 at checkout** ‘60 Minutes’ Sparked A Furious Debate Over Whether Obesity Is Mostly Genetic Biden Admin Appoints Doctor Who Claims Obesity Is Mostly Genetic To Dietary Guidelines Committee Mind Pump #1877: Obesity, It’s Not Your Genetics Pharma DTC ad spend in the U.S. 2021 | Statista Big Pharma Accounts for 75% of the Total Ad Spend on TV Big Pharma Drops Over $100 Million Fighting Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Venezuelans lose average of 19lb in weight due to nationwide food shortages, study suggests What Are The 10 Biggest Money-Making Prescription Drugs, And What Do They Treat? Overprocessed foods add 500 calories to your diet every day U.S. experts recommend weight-loss drugs for obese children Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Tony Robbins (@tonyrobbins) Instagram Jordan Peterson (@jordan.b.peterson) Instagram

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That is their consumer base. So if you're fit and healthy, they don't like you. All right, guys, I'm gonna read to you some quotes from Dr. Fatima Stanford. She's a member of the Biden USDA's Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. So she works for the administration. And she's recently been on 60 minutes talking about obesity. You guys know, obesity is this growing kind of chronic issue

that we've seen in modern societies, and it affects America quite a lot. So here's what she said literally, those are her words in the 60 minute interview. She said that having obesity is due to genetics. Okay. Having obese parents increases your risk or gives you a 50 to 80% risk of being obese yourself. And then she said in there that obesity is a brain disease because your brain tells you

How much to eat and how much to store? so What do you guys think about that Adam? What do you think? I? Mean, I think there's a couple ways to to look at this one I Don't believe it to be true, but let's say it was true What I would I approach it this way as far as like sharing it to people because I mean, I think of like having a client actually think of having like my a child if I had a child

let's say that had a disability and He's coming to me and is is down or frustrated because he's struggling to do something because he has this disability. And am I the type of father that would be like, yes, on subs for you. You didn't get dealt good cards and so you can't do those things. Or would I try to reframe his situation and empower him and motivate him to help him regardless of the situation or the cards that he was dealt. And so my opinion, and when I hear something like that, instead of trying to get in this argument and getting the weeds like most people will, you know, that we'll start to try and

argue the science of who's more right in this situation. I think even if that other side that I disagree with is right, it's still not how I would approach this situation. So yeah. I got to kind of interject in terms of like, I just, none of those statements are factual. So I can't have those kind of arguments of like, you know, playing the other person's role in this.

And we haven't seen any examples of this in history of obesity being a genetic factor. Yeah. So this is a new problem that we're addressing that has a new spin to it that we're hearing that is very alarming to me. I'm super alarmed by it. First, I want to address the 50 to 80% likelihood of being obese if you have obese parents. There's two ways of looking at one is it's genetic. So your parents are obese. Therefore, you're going to be obese. You have the same genes. The other way to look at it is that if you're a kid and you grow up in a household where people lead a lifestyle that leads to obesity,

you, by default, also will lead and learn to lead a lifestyle that will cause obesity. So it doesn't at all, in my opinion, discredit the lifestyle argument. Now, to what you said, Justin, obesity is a modern problem. I mean, you go back 100 years, and it wasn't prevalent at all. Now, genetics plays somewhat of a role, but obesity was almost non-existent if you go back 100 years.

Okay, I mean, can't you make the case when it comes to epigenetics? You can make the case that genetics always plays some sort of a role. Everything. Intelligent, success in life, longevity, strength, can make the case that genetics always play some sort of a role. Everything. Intelligence, success in life, longevity, strength, it's always a combination of that and nature. That is always factored into every, so that goes back to my point of like highlighting

or pointing that out, even if it was true, which I don't believe it to be true, it's still irrelevant to me as far as a case to even bring up. So your big argument is, and I see what you're saying, I agree with you, your big argument is, it's not only is it disempowering, but potentially there's a reason why they would want us to be unempower, like what's the goal? And why would you want money?

The same outcome of that statement and to come out with that type of money Money if you can't see if you cannot see where this is going you're an idiot That's you really are an idiot if you cannot see where this is going It's like big pharma has proven this to us time and time again and they are not interested in what's best for you They are driven, okay, they have shareholders and they are driven by being profitable and making money. And if they have any sort of relationship with news and media and have the ability to, I mean, it sounds way bad to say

this, but I mean, you almost can't blame them if they're in the business of making money and that's what they care about first and foremost to go about it this way. It's like, it's the perfect way to set the table for what's the call. It's baked into the system. I think it would be another way to say it, right? If your industry revolves around treating chronic illnesses or treating issues through medications, then your target consumer is just, I mean, just by default, it is not fit and healthy people because fit and healthy people don't need those kinds of treatments.

So there's that. And then you're looking at how can we increase our market share? How can we make the market that we're serving much larger? Well, if more people get fit and healthy, it shrinks your market. If less people are fit and healthy, you have a larger market that you can advertise to. You spent you brought up money. Let's talk about that for a second. In 2020, all TV ad spending, all TV ads spending, 75% of it was the pharmaceutical industry. So not just like a big chunk of it,

the majority of every commercial went to the revenue went to the pharmaceutical industry. Globally, the pharma industry is worth 1.4 trillion dollars, trillion dollars. The pharma industry is worth $1.4 trillion. Trillion dollars. And the big blockbuster companies are American companies. In fact, almost 50% of that 1.4 trillion is what the US pharmaceutical industry brings in. Okay, so US pharmaceutical industry brings in

almost half of the world when it comes to that kind of revenue. They spent over a hundred million dollars on lobbying, by the way, in 2022, meaning they go and talk to politicians and try to get legislation passed. And by the way, the doctor that I quoted, I mentioned she's part of Biden's administration. So that's the other part of this is people will say, well, why would the government want this?

I mean, there's a, there, there, we're already in relations with them. Yes. For all kinds of, I mean, all kinds of deals that have already been made. So this just feels like another deal they've made to, you know, kind of combine the two forces together of government and pharmaceuticals. So what's the solution to this?

Do you guys believe that a pharmaceutical company should be for profit and if you do believe that then do you also believe that they should be allowed to market and advertise just like any other for profit business and would that and potentially getting rid of that would that solve some of this problem? I don't think removing the profit incentive would make this better. In fact, I think it would make it worse because without profit, then we don't have research and development. And I do want to be clear too that the pharmaceutical industry

also does a lot of good. So removing the profit incentive means a lot of people die without new drugs and new developments. also does a lot of good. So removing the profit incentive means a lot of people die without new drugs and new developments. And they can treat many diseases quite effectively that we couldn't treat just 50 years ago. Maybe the answer is to prevent them from advertising to consumers, maybe the answer is to eliminate

their ability to lobby government. I'm not sure. I do think a good start though is to bring their ability to lobby government? I'm not sure. I do think a good start though is to bring awareness, right? To when you hear this doctor on 60 minutes telling you, it's not your fault, it's your genetics, oh, and it's a brain disease, which is strange. It's your brain telling you what to do. Okay, my brain tells me to do everything. That's a really weird way to position it.

You have to ask yourself, what is the motivating factor behind this? Because obesity again, didn't exist just a few generations ago. It's growing at a very rapid rate. Well, we don't evolve that fact. By you saying that it's attached to genetics in your brain, you open the door for everybody. Yes. Everybody is now a customer. Everybody is a customer now.

By us attaching this to genetics and to the brain. Yes. So that is the part to me where you gotta be, open your eyes and go like, this is what's coming next. First, we sell you on the idea. And this is not some fucking conspiracy theory. They did this one.

They did it with opiates. Yes, they did it with Adderall and she'll be like, I hope your crisis is at the moment. Yes. Adder control. Yes, it's out of control Yes, so that first of come out with all kinds of stuff to support How it these the reasons why your obese and it's not your fault You have a chemical imbalance or you you got dealt a shitty hand of genetics, but don't worry You know Pfizer or so and so has got something for you to help you out,

to put you on a level playing field as everybody else. Here it comes. If you're a pharmaceutical company and you're looking at symptoms to control or treat, right? If you could pick one thing that contributes to lots of things, so if you could just pick one thing that would, that now you could treat, that's a huge market, but also leads to all these other things, I can't think of a better thing than obesity. Because obesity contributes to almost any chronic health issue,

both psychological and physiological, that we can think of. Obesity makes all those things worse. So it's a massive market. Look, obese people just plain and simple, they need more medications. And the medications, by the way, that healthy people need are not big money-making medications.

So you think of certain medications like insulin for someone with diabetes or asthma medication or certain things that might get worse with obesity, but some of them are really just genetic. Those are typically generic and expensive. When you look at all the things that fall into the umbrella of obesity,

and if you make obesity a treatable disease itself without any of the other stuff, you're looking at blockbuster drugs. Well, if I'm a company and I go through this pandemic and I'm looking at, you know, one of the biggest contributors to people's fears in terms of the most risk was the obese community. So there's a big effort right now to I'm sure move away from being obese, whether that's

through fitness, whether that's through nutrition, whether it's just looking at research and trying to figure out, like, you know, how can I be less at risk? Now we're addressing obesity in terms of it being a genetic thing that all of a sudden now we can solve. Yeah, I think if you really, I mean, it's not hard to see this, right? Obviously, the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industry,

just the way the system is designed, this is their target audience or their target consumers. Then you have politicians who are heavily influenced by one of the largest industries in the world. And it's no surprise, right? That government is influenced heavily by large corporations for things like legislation and policy. That's been happening for a long time. But there's also this, which is politicians do much better when they can make a problem seem like it's not yours, but they have the solution. Okay, so think of it this way. If you had two politicians, and let's say that the number one wedge issue was obesity.

It's never is, but let's just say it was. Let's say, you know, election season's coming. And on the top of the list of things that Americans are concerned with, it's not economy, it's not safety, it's not, it is obesity. And you had one politician who goes up there and they go, look, here's a deal, everybody. Obesity is a big problem. Lots of people are dying for me. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's genetics.

Your brain is telling you what to do. There's nothing you can do about it. But if you elect me, we are going to go, we're going to have a war on obesity and we're going to subsidize drugs that will solve obesity for you. And I'm going to make sure every American who's obese gets these drugs for free, they could take them and they will no longer be obese. And it's going to resonate so hard with so many people because it's the majority of people that suffer from this and or connected to somebody else. That's right.

And then on the other side, politician comes up. So now he goes and then the next person comes up and they go, Hey, everybody, it's like, yeah, so BC is a problem, but it's your lifestyle. It's how you eat. It's how you move. It's the way you live your life. You totally have the power to change this. And I hate to tell you this, but the government can't do anything to help you. Listen, you are not getting elected. Listen, we saw this example with the pandemic. I mean, and now, by the way, you're seeing all the articles coming out to support how important a healthy diet, vitamin D and nutrition and exercise has to do with building your, building your immune system and putting you in the best position possible

to fight off or survive COVID. Yet none of that was communicated in the very beginning of all this. And for the first year and a half, two years, now it's all coming afterwards. Yeah, after they've already made billions of dollars off of the vaccine, like this is the same type of deal. It's just like they're gonna hold back the information

that really matters right now. They're gonna promote some other bullshit message because they have an agenda and the agenda is to Set the table for what's coming for you as a solution. Let me go down the list Maybe Doug you could scroll down a little bit because I had I took notes because there's a lot here so These are the things that we know for a fact not that far down that we know for a fact that obesity Contributes to okay, so obesity, this is a fact this is all established. Obesity by itself significantly increases the risk of high blood pressure. Okay, so if you're obese, you're risk of high blood pressure 65 to 78%.

Okay, now think of all the medications and drugs that are around that are to treat blood pressure, high blood pressure a lot. In fact, high blood pressure medication is one of the most common medications that people take. Lipid profile dysfunction, cholesterol, right? LDL, HDL. Ever since the invention of statins, because if your cholesterol numbers

don't look good according to their ranges, taking a statin, I mean, it just basically makes your numbers look good. Statins are some of the most profitable medications there are on the market. Cancer, cancer, it's been estimated that roughly 10% of all cancers can be, 10% a lot. If you look at all the cancers that exist in America that have happened, 10% of them can be attributed to obesity. Some of them much higher, like liver and kidney cancers twice as high your risk of getting those if you're obese

and to meet your ill cancers seven times as high. Now how many medications, drugs, hospital stays, doctor visits are connected to cancer? Like I had a family member fight cancer for a year and a half. Do you know how expensive that process was? I mean, just the visits, the stays, the antidepressants, the anxiety medication, people don't think, oh, you just take medication

or drugs for cancer, like chemo. No, no, no, no. There's also severe anxieties, severe depression, there's therapy, there's doctor visits, then there's hospital visits when it starts to get real bad. The cost associated with cancer and the money available or that people can make or these corporations can make with cancer is massive. Heart disease, think of all the drugs and surgical interventions that are related to heart

disease. You go get a double bypass or you have to get when your arteries get a stint put in there or all the medications that are connected to heart disease, right? Stroke. And then in diabetes, diabetes is one of the number one chronic health issues. But it doesn't just stop there.

Depression and anxiety also are greatly increased the risks with simple obesity. And obviously the lifestyle that is connected to obesity, depression and anxiety are two of the most treated psychiatric conditions that we have. So when you add all of those up and we know that obesity contributes greatly to those, you're looking at a massive market. Now, in the past, you had medications that were for each one of those. So if you go in and you're obese, but you don't have high blood pressure, your cholesterol seems okay.

You don't have heart disease or one of those things. So you're like your BMI is a little high, but you don't have those things. You really don't qualify. In fact, to qualify for obesity drugs, you had to be severely like really off the charts. But what they're trying to do now is make simple obesity a disease that you can't do anything about yourself. Now you can take a medication just for obesity

and increase the size of the market for obesity because what you're doing is you're sending a message. And I want to be clear here, this is a message they're pushing now. It doesn't sink in for a generation or so. So they're making the push. Us who've been around are looking at this going you're an idiot, this is whatever.

It's your kids and then their kids who are gonna be raised with this, whatever you want to call it. I would call it a shot at preventative methods. Right, it's a direct shot at our industry. What we do, how we help people. So that's, I think what's so alarming about it is, you know how many people are gonna be impacted that we're actually going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to be able to make sure that we're going to make sure that we're going to make sure that we're going to make sure that we're going to

make sure that we're going to make sure that we're going to make sure that we're going to make sure that we're going to make sure that we're going to make sure that we're going to obesity or the most important factor when it comes to health and fitness is all about the mental psychological. It's not the steps, it's not the... That's why even if they could back up and prove this science, that would not be my argument. I think everyone's going to get lost in the weeds in that argument. I think that's actually part of the strategy. The part of the strategy is like, okay, if we connected the brain, we can...

And you could twist numbers today. Yeah, exactly. We connected the brain in genetics, which is basically influences everything, okay? We can easily manipulate the stats to convince, or at least fool a good percentage of people, or people go like, that's just way too much for me to think about, I'm gonna believe what this doctor

is telling me and just go down that path. I think that's the wrong argument. I still think that, even if that were true, that would not be the way that I would handle it if it was my child. If my child was going through that, I would net and they did get bad genetics. I got it for some reason and they were destined to have a much harder time with losing weight than I ever had to deal with from my wife did. He just got, you know, Max got the bad deal. I still wouldn't present it to him that way. I would never I would never do that because it doesn't

empower him very very much so and it's a it's a losing battle to do that and it's silly to think that That's the the answer. Let me ask you this though, so I Know there's somebody who's listening right now who he is nodding their head in agreeance on yeah all this so at that But then what they would say is they would blame this on capitalism. What is your point on and do you believe? Do you believe this is a flaw in capitalism? Do you believe it's to blame and that a, you know, a socialistic type of structure would

be better or some sort of a non-profit setup for it would be better like I know somebody is thinking that right now is there listening to us rattle off all this. Yeah, because They're not that many obese people in North Korea or Venezuelan or in the Soviet Union so You know is capitalism to blame. I think it's more like prosperity Capitalism to blame, I think it's more like prosperity, choices, and markets that give us what we want. So, I mean, I guess if you want to make the argument that we wouldn't be obese if we were in North Korea, yeah, but you have other problems. You know, you'd be starving. I think really what capitalism does is it just gives us what we want, and the problem is we don't always know what we need. It's just what we

want. So what markets have done is they've given us, and we'll get to this, you know, maybe later in the episode, but they've given us convenient, super tasty, long shelf life food. So fast, taste super good, and it lasts a long time. So I have to throw it out, right? I could just put it in the pantry and then grab it whenever I want. And that's what people want, and so we created food like that. What else do we want? We don't want to move.

It's hard. I don't want to get up and walk somewhere. It's work, I don't want to, you know, I'd rather just sit here and not do anything. And so capitalism's like, here you go. Here's innovations that allow you to do that. Here's door dash. Here's food to your door. Here's washing machines and dishwashers and devices.

And I don't think it's a bad thing. I think what it is is our world has changed rapidly and dramatically, but we're still left with bodies that evolve to live in a completely different environment. So obesity is a side effect of that. Now, I do think that, I mean, we still have lots of control over it, but being fit and healthy is no longer the default.

It's now something you have to choose, because the default now is being obese. So when people blame capitalism on some of these problems, to me, it's silly because it's like, well, what's the alternative? Do you want to be thrown? I mean, I guess I could take obese people and put them in a room

and give them only the food that I want them to eat and make them walk on a treadmill eight hours a day. But is that really what we want? Well, you know what I think about when somebody does that or says something like that is, I think about one of the more impactful things I ever heard Tony Robbins say to a kid that was complaining about their childhood with their parent

and had a really terrible doubt. It was abusive and all these things and stuff like that. And he was, I was not ready for him to say what he said to this girl and he says, you have to, if you're going to blame him for that, for those bad things that happen in life, you have to blame him for everything then, all the good things and all that and like, really reframe the way. And so I feel the same way about if you're going to shit on it being capitalism fault and okay arguably that could be true or it's partially true for sure, then you also have to blame

it for all the good that it's created in this country too and is it better or worse than any other type of a situation. Yeah. Kind of like that Jordan Peterson talk that we just saw of being able to see the duality, you know, ideologists tend to, you know, attach themselves to a, you know, handful of facts, whether it be negative or positive, but then leave out the other side always

so they can prove their point. Both are true. Right. Which one do you want to focus on the most? Yeah. And that's sort of how you run your operating system of how you look at the world. I mean, it's like there's going to be potential negatives, it's going to be potential positives. Do the positives out way the negatives is what you always have to say. Yeah, look,

my dad grew up very poor and Sicily, okay. I would rather live now where I have to choose to go lift heavy things in a gym versus the way he grew up, or he had no choice. If he didn't go lift heavy things and break his back, then he had no money and couldn't support himself and his family couldn't survive. So, you know, do I want forced workouts or be able to choose workouts? Do I want forced diet?

You know, there was a statistic from Venezuela when they, the average Venezuelan lost something like 20 pounds when they went full socialism. So it's like, oh, the greatest diet of all time. I mean, really? So yeah, so that's silly. I think we're in this position and we need to become more aware. And you know, look, by the way,

this is why it's so such a powerful argument what they're doing. Because you guys know this, we all know this. If you're somebody who's struggled with this because lifestyle is a struggle, You know, lifestyle is everything. So I don't want to make light of how challenging this is. We're not just talking about like one thing that you do. This is your lifestyle. And if you grew up this way, and this is the way everyone is around you, changing that is really, really hard. It is not easy. So there's a lot of people, most people,

again, you guys know this, who struggle with this who are like, I have tried 10 times. I've lost weight, I've gained a back, I've tried this diet, I've tried that diet, I signed up for this workout, I did that kind of workout. And it's just, it's not working for me. So then somebody comes along and says, you know why?

Because it's your genetics, it's not your fault. That's gonna working for me. So then somebody comes along and says, you know why? Because it's your genetics. It's not your fault. That's gonna feel so true. That's gonna totally feel true. Now back to the psychological piece, again, the I could work with, and I'd love you guys' opinion on this. I can work with anything with a client

who's trying to lose weight, but there's one thing I cannot work with that it would be impossible for me. And it's the person who comes to me who refuses to be empowered, who says, there's nothing I can do to self-believe. Yeah, if they can't do anything about it, first of all, they wouldn't hire me because to hire a trainer means you already believe that you can, but the person who believes they can't do anything about it, there's nothing I could do. Because when they say that, it's true.

Like, where do you go with that? Like that that message that's already being received and they're telling themselves that and they're not going to put any effort into it, then you're going to get the outcome that you're already predicted in your own mind. Totally. All right, so we don't want to do because this is happening right now and I think this is a push and we're going to see it happen for the next five years is I would like to predict now what's going to happen. So that when it happens, people can go back and be like, okay, like they called it and this is not a coincidence, we could see this and maybe it'll help people become more aware. Right.

So first thing is that they're going to create and push the narrative that obesity is something you have no control over. That's happening right now. Next we'll come to studies to support it. Yeah, so part of that is telling people it's not your fault and then they'll take data, they'll twist it. For example, if you have overweight parents, your odds of being obese are 50 to 80% higher, sounds like it could be a genetic thing.

If you don't figure that, it's also lifestyle because you live with your parents, they raise it, right? So they could take that data, twist it, make it sound like, oh, parents are this way, then I should be this way. Just like my parents are short, then I'll be short. Now that's not how this specific thing works. The other half of that, that narrative, is to demonize.

So here's what they do with propaganda. They'll put out a false message and then they'll demonize the correct message. So part of the narrative that they're going to push, and this is happening now, and you're going to see more of this, is gyms are bad places, they're fat phobic. It's hating yourself if you're trying to lose weight, fat phobia is a thing. It's not body acceptance. It's toxic masculinity. It's all these negative things. So, with aggression, you name it. They're gonna demonize. So, it's racist, racist. Yes, racist. They're gonna demonize people or ways

of getting yourself healthy. Diet's a restrictive, diets are oppressive, exercises terrible, gyms are terrible places. So, that's all gonna be combined with this current push that obesity is something that you have no control over. So that's happening right now. Part of that is going to be using authority to make the case. So doctor, this doctor comes on.

You can see lots of doctors and lots of scientists who are going to come out and say, well, yeah, here's the case. And by the way, I'm an expert because I'm an expert in genetics. Yeah. Or I'm going to get my title. Yes. I'm an obesity doctor or look at my stethoscope. So the authority is gonna be used to make it seem like it's not propaganda like this is real, this is the deal.

And oh my God, no wonder it's so hard. And no wonder I've never been able to really successfully solve this. The next step, which isn't happening yet, but it will be, is there gonna make just simple obesity, so just being obese or being overweight in medical disease? So it will no longer be that your obese which contributes to disease,

it's going to be obesity is a disease. That'll be the next step. Once obesity is a disease and it's established, medically is a disease. Now that opens, now it's go time to make as much drugs as we can to help that disease. That's right. Now that it's a disease, insurance companies will cover

new drugs, pharmaceutical companies will see this new market. So anytime a new market opens, then the pharmaceutical company goes, oh my God, by the way, what percentage of Americans are overweight? What is it, 60%? OBS I think it's 40%. So a majority of America is now your market. And this is a growing market, by the way.

It's not a market that's stagnant. More and more people are becoming obese every single year and kids are becoming obese. So this is a market that is not limited to old people like Alzheimer's or just women like ovarian cancer. This is a market that's everybody, men, women, and children, and at old young, whatever, huge, huge market that's going to open up. And then what that does is because that market will be open, pharmaceutical industry then will take investment dollars and they now feel confident spending money

on this particular thing. Whereas before to get a prescription for obesity by itself, kind of hard, once it becomes an official disease, you go to the doctor, they weigh you, it'll be this, it'll be this simple. They'll weigh you, your BMI is this. Oh, here's your prescription.

Here's your prescription. Can you look up to what category of pharmaceuticals is the most profitable or makes the most annual revenue? Because here's the next prediction I'll give you is that I think it's gonna pass everything. Everything. I think that it'll be the biggest market we have yet to see in pharmacy.

You talk about cancer being probably a massive one, I would imagine. I bet you money that this one will grow to be as big or bigger than something as prevalent as cancer because of how many people are going to attach this to. And it opens the door for basically anything that improves any sort of cognitive function, anything that helps speed up your metabolism,

anything that suppresses your appetite, anything that can show in a study, that it improves any of those things, can now be prescribed as a drug to help this disease. And it's, boys, it's gonna be wild, dude. What it'll be interesting to see is how fast this happens. I mean, is it gonna be, I mean, we see the news and the information coming out right now.

Is it within a year, two years? I wouldn't be surprised if it was within a year. This year, huh? I think it's gonna, I think it's gonna happen. Give me the next year. Who's leading here? Yeah, so the, I don't know how to even pronounce it. These names for these pharmaceuticals are great.

Zaryl Toe. Well, what are they for? That's right. Coronary artery disease. Okay. Another one is for cancer. Okay. This is the top two.

So heart disease cancer, top two. Ophthalmolic treatment, which is for eyes, I guess. Yeah. So, I mean, there's a number of them there. Look, it's brought in billions and billions of cells. I'm going to say this right now. The list is endless because there isn't a single health issue that obesity doesn't make worse.

Right, and that's why I think this thing is gonna be massive. And there's so many things, naturally and pharmaceutical that you can take, that can improve cognition or in appetite, suppressing type things or speed up metabolism. There's so many things that you can attach to that. So it just makes it a side effects that you can now have drugs to catty.

You know, you're just an endless amount. You just brought up a phenomenal point, Adam, that I didn't even consider is current drugs that are out there that could be now used off label, which often happens to work with obesity because one of the side effects is weight loss Or one of the side effects is appetite suppression. Oh, yes What a great I would a great observation a hundred percent So you've now not just opened up a market for new potential pharmaceutical drugs. You can rebrand other

Dr. You've opened up markets for your current drugs for just being overweight, holy cow. I mean, look, from a business standpoint, this is brilliant because... Oh, if I'm a pharmaceutical business, I'm getting excited right now. Oh my God. You've just quadrupled your revenue. I mean, like overnight as soon as... When a doctor says, oh, this is the official diagnosis now. This is what we got to say. They're going to look at their patient list. Think about this. How many doctor visits and hospital visits do fit and healthy people have on an annual basis versus people who are obese? So if you're a doctor, besides physicals and stuff like that, the patients that you see the most probably a greater percentage of them than the normal population are obese. So now you're a doctor, you see these people on a regular basis because they're coming in

because they're not that healthy. And now you're like, oh, yeah, well, they're also overweight. Boom, let's slap that on. Oh, and that, this is getting them to lose weight. We'll also help them. Can you weight easier conversation than tell them about diet and nutrition? Can you guys also imagine how powerful these ads are in comparison to that? So right now when you see like a you know a sea Alice commercial the guy sit in a bathtub with a smile And like they they're trying to paint this picture for you

You have to imagine what he's feeling or whatever like you don't get to see the physiological change as the person watching this Commercial when it is connected to obesity and fat loss, before and after, we know how pop or how powerful before and after pictures are in our industry. You are literally going to be like, oh my God, that's me. I struck with those things. And then I'll send boom after and see the afterpissue list to pro. Dude, it's the the ability to sell that in comparison to any other pharmaceutical I can think of. I just, I don't know if there's anything that is as powerful, that will be as powerful. It's going to be crazy.

I totally can see. So like, Planet Fitness did a fantastic job with how they like demonized sort of like the bro aggression part of the gym, right? And like, I just see that as being an angle for them to like this crazy, aggressive toxic environment. I'm going to go to the gym, I'm finally going to get my things together and then be like, that's too much and then they go home and take a pill and then it'll be fine. Or it'll just be like, it'll show someone. I tried exercise, I tried diet and nothing worked. Yeah.

And then I tried whatever drug. Yeah. And I lost. Yeah. And then I tried, whatever drug. And I lost 20 pounds. And then you're gonna see their picture. Yeah. And I'm enjoying, and I can eat, like I, I don't have to change my diet. And by the way, they are, there are drugs out there that are showing some weight loss effects.

There's new drugs on the horizon that are showing some of these. But as we've talked about in other episodes, they're not going to give you nearly the breadth of, you know, benefits is changing your lifestyle, both psychological and physical. And I'm not against, by the way, medications that help certain people, but we know what's going to happen here if this becomes mainstream. It's not going to make people healthier. It's not. No. We're going to get worse. Yeah's not. We're gonna get worse. Things are gonna get much worse. Well, my view might be a bit different

if it was just in the clinical setting, treating morbidly obese. Well, you can do that now. Yeah, so I mean, that's to me, it's life changing, life saving at that point, versus this has been marketed to everybody. Kids, you know, everybody. I'll give you guys some of the most popular drugs. I'll say to you, you know, hey, Adam, go out, walk around the street, find 10 people

that you could sell this antidepressant to, or I said, hey, Adam, go walk around, find 10 people who you'll sell this weight loss drug to. Easy. Boom, boom, boom, boom, one after another. No problem. I mean, that's why I think it's going to be the biggest market we've ever seen.

I mean, look at how much money is in the supplement industry. For weight loss. Yeah, I know. And I think that's why I think think it's gonna be the biggest market we've ever seen. I mean, look at how much money is in the supplement in history. For weight loss. Yeah. And it's not work. And it's not FDA-rated.

It doesn't work, but yet look how much money is made in that. What do you think's gonna happen when the most powerful companies with the most money backing them and the government as their friend is going to just imagine what they're going to do. It's going to be crazy. Well, I mean, it's funny to me too, because I mean, you know, they could change, for example, the design of cities.

So people are encouraged to walk more. They could change advertising when it comes to advertising food to children. They could change education. All those things would be lifestyle-based, but again, they require more choice and more empowerment and it doesn't make a lot of money. It just doesn't make a lot of money. We should talk about what caused the dramatic rise in obesity.

And really, it's much more complex than what I'm about to say, but there's two factors here. One, we eat too much, duh, right? We just eat too much. But then people ask, well, what do you mean? Like, we've always eaten, how come all of a sudden we eat too much? Is it because we have so much more food? No, not necessarily. You know, that I'll go back to the statement that that doctor made on 60 minutes where she said it's our brain. And our brain is telling us how much we need to eat in order to keep ourselves alive. And if our brains are off, she says, right, essentially, this is what she's implying.

If your brain signals are off, then you'll be eating way more food than you need. Okay, the food industry has figured out how to do this. With ultra-process foods. We've been saying this forever. Yeah, ultra-process foods are designed and engineered to get your brain to tell you that you're not full when you should be full,

to get your brain to make you wanna eat more. This isn't just me saying this by the way, the studies, and these are the, by the way, these are some of the best studies done on nutrition. One of the challenge with nutrition studies is they're either observational, which is tough because people come back and report, which is always inaccurate,

or they're done in settings that are just not realistic or small sample sizes. So it's really hard to kind of parse things out. But the studies on ultra-processed foods are amazing. They'll take groups of people, it's my favorite studies. They'll take groups of people, put them in rooms, group A, group B, you're in a room, monitored. Macros are accounted for.

Protein fats and carbs percentage foods, okay? Very similar. This group over here, ultra-processed foods, this, fats, and carbs percentage foods, okay? Very similar. This group over here, ultra-process foods, this group over here, whole natural foods, and then they'll say just eat as much as you want. And they'll watch them. And then, they'll take the groups and have them switch rooms. So just in case they had a group over here that tends to overeat and over here that tends

to under eat, they had them switch. On average, people consume 600 more calories a day with ultra-process foods. So these foods are making your brain tell you to overrate. Do you think that process foods could have influence our genetics, like nothing we've ever seen before? Because one of the arguments against this obesity gene argument is that as humans, we don't evolve that fast. We didn't go, we can't, it's like, you know,

just because all of us pick up swimming and stuff like that we grow fins within 20 years. That wouldn't happen, right? We get very long time. We get very long time. Seen water rule. Right, for something like that to happen. So this idea that, you know, just a hundred years ago,

nobody was really obese or a very, very small percentage to all these people is this, is genetics or to blame is like, okay, well, you don't understand evolution very well because it takes a very long time for something to be that much of a dramatic shift in like our metabolism or how our body operates. But we also have never lived in a time with us, you know, consuming so much of these process foods and the chemicals that were going on, which I know people get triggered by using words like chemicals because everything is technically

a chemical. But I mean, there's a lot of things that we have now attached to negative outcomes from in taking so much of these certain chemicals. At the very least, these chemicals were put in there to make you overeat. Right. Okay. So, and so we agree on that. I don't think anybody doesn't believe that processed foods somewhat hijack your body's ability to do that and make you wanna overeat. Anybody who's ate junk food knows what that feels like.

So is it possible for a generation of somebody who grew up on processed foods, and that's all you ate your whole life, and then you have a child that those foods actually could have potentially influenced their genetics. Epigenetics. No, that's not just a chance.

I mean, that's what's happened. So when you eat these foods, your brain rewires itself and the reward systems change and you find that you crave them more and more. Not unlike a drug. Like you take a drug, you get your dopamine hit, you build up a tolerance, you need more of that drug, you have a stronger craving for it. So, and they've done studies on this where people will eat certain foods

and then want more of them, even though they feel worse, and then because they feel worse, they want more of them. So, yes, it changes how you crave things. Look, if you eat candy all the time, go eat some fruit, it's bland. A strawberry, a grape, a banana, tastes bland if all you do is eat candy. Now, avoid candy for six months. Then go eat a piece of fruit and all of a sudden it's bursting with flavor.

Anybody, you competed in bodybuilding. You've talked about this all the time. So, yes, definitely. However, I will say this with hard evolution, not epigenetics, but where you're like, hard genetics really change, The opposite would happen. We wouldn't evolve to become obese in 100 years. If we go down this path 10,000 years from now and we allow evolution to take over, meaning we don't fix ourselves through advances in technology and stuff.

We just let people die who are obese and get harder. We'll end up happening. We'll actually evolve. To have fast metabolites. Yeah, more resilient. And become resilient. So it's not what they say. We didn't evolve to become unhealthy.ites more resilient and become resilient. Yeah. So it's not it's not what they say. Like we didn't evolve to become unhealthy. That's not how it works. We would be evolved. How much do they attribute to like in terms of like your gut flora and how that gets affected in terms of your cravings and then you know how

that influences because it has an impact on you know the way that that access to the brain. Well, you're your gut flora changes with the food that you eat. So if you change your diet, forget ultra processed foods in junk food, you just go from low carb to high carb or carnivore to vegan or whatever, your gut flora changes right away. But then we have things like antibiotics and chemicals present in our environment

that tend to change our gut flora. That's an evolving science. As you say, the problem with the gut science is it's just too, it's still too broad and vague. Everything changes it. Healthy food changes it, different diets changes. And look, you can repopulate it. So it's, yeah, but it's still,

it's a factor that there's a lot of new science around, but that's, you know, that's something too, that's contributing. No, what the problem is, is they're looking for this silver bullet issue that they could fix with the pill. Of course. When in reality, it's, you overeat, which is complicated.

So it's not just, yeah, yes, overeating is simple, but what causes you to overeat, your relationship with food and yourself and the kinds of foods that you choose to eat, how you use food, like all that plays a role, and I'm not going to minimize that. That's how huge it's very complicated and challenging. And then there's also, we just don't move enough. We don't have enough muscle, our hormonal health is off as a result of that, which also contributes to this.

And that's also complex, right? Because if you do the wrong kind of workout, beat yourself up, do it for the wrong reasons, you won't wanna do it, you'll slow your metabolism down, hurt yourself, and it just feels like way too much work for a little bit of a return. So, but again, to simplify, we overeat, and we don't move enough.

Now, it's much more complex when you look deeper, but look, we've all worked in this health space for over two and a half decades. I've personally worked with people and seen them permanently, permanently stop the cycle of obesity, permanent forever. Still, I've been contacted with these people and they never gained a pound back

through proper lifestyle change and through good coaching where I got good later on as a trainer, probably my first five to seven years, I wasn't very good, but I had to figure out how can I help these people make these permanent changes? Not just Doni as much behavior. You pattern behaviors that you establish, you know. That's right, that does take a lot of work.

That's right, and the growth that happens through that, and the feeling that you get from being able to do it on your own and then the ability to navigate the modern world in a healthy balanced way where you don't feel you know like you're oppressing yourself or restricting yourself because the same doctrine that's 60 minutes things like it's not an issue of willpower. I hate that because it paints the picture that if you're obese that that, or obese people, all they need to do is like, white knuckle at their whole life.

It says your power list is what it says. Yes, yes, yes. Same, make it a state. I mean, that's why I think that the wrong argument is to try and this is why I don't like even in our space when, you know, and I know some people love this. They love to pit each, you know, us and somebody else against each other and let's get in a, you know, pub med war new studies more and it's like you lose the the real root cause of the issues when we are arguing in the about these controlled studies It's like the same thing goes in this situation like it's not like

If trust me if the if the government's involved in pharmaceutical companies, there's going to be some research and studies to help support their argument that's going to be floating around like crazy. And so you're going to have these two sides of this that are going to be arguing over who science is more correct. And neither one of them are really addressing the root cause and or how you would solve the problem if it was your child. It was your child and you wanted the best for them is that how you would communicate this message.

And I don't know, I think if you're a good parent, it's an easy answer, it's no. I would never tell my son and I use the disability thing as an example, because to me, either way, I would communicate that in a way to empower him and tell him that he can do anything he can put his mind to. Even if physically, he is at a massive disadvantage as everybody else. Focus on what you can control.

Yes, right. I would definitely not be like, yeah, you're fucked. You're probably never going to be able to do those small things. Any of those things, son, that you want to do in life because you don't have the tools that everybody else has. And along those lines, if you're a parent and your child is dealing with this, one of the most effective, permanent ways

you can help your kid is to do this yourself. Well, this is the scary part is that there's gonna be a whole host of parents that get on board with this stuff. And you're not, you're not gonna just fuck up you. You're gonna fuck up the next generation coming up because they're gonna learn from their parents. They've already done this.

I shared an article in previous podcasts where their medical association I was approving weight loss drugs for children to help them with this issue. So, look, the whole stay awake man. The whole goal is to call this out so people see it. They can recognize the propaganda, recognize the twisting of the data,

and not become a victim of the pharmaceutical industry. Not become a consumer, and somebody who spends money on them, because you've been lied to or because you believed in their lies, and that's just the bottom line. Look, if you like this show, head over to mindpumpfreed.com. Check out our guides.

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