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

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Problem of Obesity and the Environment

We're not only talking about a regulatory system that has all these elements, but a bunch of organisms literally living within us. So we're dealing with an organism which has its very complex and beautiful system designed to regulate various aspects of the biology. And it fails in the sense that there's a lot more obesity than there was prior to the environment that we've been able to create. But it's not totally disregulated. I think people are just regulating their body weights at somewhat higher levels than they were in other circumstances.

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