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#33 - Rudy Leibel, M.D.: Finding the obesity gene and discovering leptin

The Peter Attia Drive

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What Got You Interested in Obesity?

As a medical student, you worked at the walter reed army institute of research. You were indoctrinated by other scientists there about the role of the hypothalamis in regulating body weight. And then for five or six years, i worked at both the mass general and a community hospital in the boston area. So what got you interested in obesity? I was interested in obesity, or at least in the part of the brain that regulates body weight, even as a medical student.

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