Jun 18, 2019
I hear this a lot. "I have to lose weight for medical reasons."
Nope. Hate to break it to you, but doctors are the biggest
perpetuators of intentional weight loss. Here's the thing: you can
pursue health and still not dive into intentional weight loss.
Here's the other thing: sometimes, yes, pursuing health leads to
weight loss- but it is NOT THE WEIGHT LOSS that causes the
health benefits.
This is not an argument against weight loss
inherently- in many cases, yes, you will lose weight once you get
your shit together. But in a lot of cases, you may not. We cannot
point at the fat and say "this is the problem!"- that is lazy
medical advice if we want to call it advice at all.
We're going to cover two different medical cases today-
hypothyroidism and type 2 diabetes- the two most popular reasons
why doctors begin to pedal weight loss. I bet you can find a thin
person with type 2 diabetes and I bet you can find a fat person
without it- this is an issue of representation and correlation vs.
causation.
Ready to get your socks blown off? Tune in for more.