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Episode #231: BMI Controversy and New Drug Breakthroughs

Barbell Medicine Podcast

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The Effects of Lifestyle Interventions on Weight Loss

100% of people in the study achieved at least a 5% weight loss. This is the first time I've seen this in any of these treatments. A 100% response rate is pretty much unheard of in most medication trials for any treatment outcome where you get 100% of people to this treatment goal that you have. The tolerability of it was pretty comparable to the other ones that we've already seen and had experience with so far. And then, as you might expect by inducing such significant loss of body fat, there was substantial improvements in people's blood lipid profiles,. Their triglycerides and blood LDL cholesterol levels, the hemoglobin A1c as a measure of their average blood sugar also

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