Are GLP-1s Legit? with Dr. Ania Jastrebroff

Okay, here's an admission.

Despite having an Equinox membership, I am not a health expert.

A lot of comedians will talk wild shit about doctors, diseases, vaccines, and then when they're checked on it, backpedal with the, "Hey, I'm just asking questions." But I, Hasan Minhaj, pledge to you, if I ever ask a question about health, it will be to a doctor.

Not RFK Jr., not Aaron Rodgers, and not to my friend who's also a comedian.

Understood? Awesome.

Great.

Okay, now that that disclaimer is out of the way, I am here to talk to you about obesity, and specifically about one substance that the weight loss community swears by, a miracle drug that will sharpen your jawline and shed six inches off your waist.

I'm talking about willpower.

It's not what you're capable of, it's what you're willing to do.

True fucking willpower.

If you have to ask how to get motivated to go to the gym, you don't want it enough.

Get up! Get up! Stop being lazy!

Ask a certain kind of fitness influencer and they will tell you that the key to achieving 6% body fat is just wanting it.

But clearly, and that's ridiculous.

There are looksmaxers that do nothing but take gym selfies all day, and there are obese HVAC guys who work 10-hour shifts outside in the sun.

Laziness has nothing to do with obesity.

Another thing I won't be doing in this episode, making fun of overweight and obese people, because for one, it's hack, but also it's bad business.

They are statistically more than half of my audience.

Seven out of 10 American adults are overweight or obese, and obesity has tripled since the early 1960s.

What changed? Not our basic biology.

I mean, something possibly happened that made Ed Sheeran lose his balls, but other than that, it's basically been the same.

But what drastically changed is what scientists call our obesogenic environment.

Our foods are more processed.

We drive instead of walking, and we are sleeping less and stressing more.

Living in America is like living in a first floor apartment that they're doing roadwork next to.