06/18/2026
You can’t have it both ways.
If GLP-1 medications improve cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, fatty liver disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and many other obesity-related conditions, then we must acknowledge what connects them: obesity is a chronic disease.
For too long, obesity has been treated as a personal failure rather than a medical condition. Yet when we treat obesity effectively, we often see improvements across multiple organ systems.
The conversation shouldn’t be whether obesity is a disease.
The conversation should be how we diagnose it earlier, treat it better, and help patients achieve lasting health through body recomposition, nutrition, movement, and when appropriate, medication.
Also if you are going to say “well I don’t have obesity and it helped me with…”
If you did a body composition and SAW that your visceral fat is low and your percentage body fat was below 28 if you are woman or below 20% of you are a man, and good muscle@mass and used the medication and a disease improved, then I’ll give it to you.
But if you are just assuming you didn’t have visceral fat or a higher than normal percentage body fat and you felt great with the GLP1, well NEWSFLASH, you probably did have fat to lose and now you feel great.