The New Era of Weight Loss and Heart Health with Robert Eckel
About this episode
The episode discusses the connection between weight loss and heart health with expert Robert Eckel, highlighting new treatments and research in obesity management.
Cancer is the disease most people fear. But heart disease is the one that actually kills the most Americans, and most people never connect it to their weight. For decades, obesity was treated as a bystander to heart disease, a risk factor at best. That thinking has changed dramatically, and the data behind that shift is stunning: we now have a medication proven to cut major cardiovascular events by 20% in people with obesity. Join Holly and Jim as they sit down with an old friend and true legend in the field, Dr. Robert Eckel, Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Bob is the only person to have ever served as president of the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the Obesity Society, a hat trick that connects heart, metabolism, and weight in a way no one else in medicine can claim. He's been in the room for four decades of major turning points in this field, from the earliest meetings on obesity science to the current GLP-1 era. In this episode, Bob walks Holly and Jim through the science, the skepticism, and the surprises behind the biggest shift in obesity treatment of their careers and answers real listener…
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Hosts: Holly Wyatt, James Hill
Guest: Robert Eckel
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, Obesity Society, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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