What Does a Doctor Say About GLP-1 Drugs?
Dr. David A. Kessler has always been in the business of keeping people healthy – but by his own admission, he hasn’t always applied that to himself.
Kessler’s problem was with food. In medical school, greasy French fries and salted roast beef helped him stay up studying and researching late at night. Over the years, his weight fluctuated. He’d gain 20 or 40 pounds in a relatively short time frame, then slowly lose the weight, usually by going on a low-carb, high-protein diet, and exercising.
He went on to have a long career in public health, including a seven-year tenure as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the 1990s, where he advocated for better nutrition labels and against the tobacco lobby.
Excerpted from NPR
