Obesity Isn’t Your Fault: Biology, Addiction & Solutions with Dr. David Kessler

I ran the FDA and here I can't control my weight. So I ended up after COVID, 40 pounds heavier, and and I didn't like myself. I said, look, I gotta understand why do I keep on gaining this fat and what is at the root of this problem. 25% of us are gonna develop heart failure. Half of us are pre-diabetic, 25% of us are gonna have stroke.

We're gonna talk about why we're in a metabolic crisis in America, why our food system is so messed up, and what we can do about it. both from the personal and the policy perspective. David Kessler is a physician, an author, a public health leader who has served as chief science officer of the White House COVID-19 response team and previously as the commissioner of the FDA. He's a pediatrician by training. He also served as the dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco.

It's not your fault, you're fat. Because the food industry wants to blame you. And that is as far from the biological truth as you could possibly get. I think it's important to change our paradigm of how we think about addiction.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (71 minutes, 12,868 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.