Josh Levitt
Licensed naturopathic physician in Hamden, Connecticut; co-founder and medical director of UpWellness and owner of Whole Health family practice, and a clinical preceptor for Yale School of Medicine.
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Sep 14, 2026
Josh LevittGUEST
Well, it starts with, with Big Food, which was w- is widely known as the source of the obesity epidemic.
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70% of Americans, maybe it's a little less now, are overweight or obese in this country.
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And now we have this solution, and I put that in quotes, in the form of these medications that are causing rapid weight loss in so many people.
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And the, the, the take is that there's a cognitive dissonance there, right? The, the drugs are amazing, and that weight loss is really necessary, but is this really a solution-
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Josh LevittGUEST
Well, a lot of people don't know this, but like the liver is the metabolic engine that burns that fat.
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So when you, when you lose weight, like I said, Americans have lost like four hundred and fifty million pounds in the last year or so with these new meds, which is a great thing, like I said.
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What people need to understand about these liver labs, and I think this is an important, like, education piece, is that, like...
Josh LevittGUEST
And no one ever thinks about this, right? Like, when we draw blood, we draw it out of your, your vein in your arm usually, right? So that's your blood, and then we're checking your liver.
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