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Ignoring the Harm: Why We Justify Suffering for Weight Loss
Manage episode 518981030 series 2973559
When doctors recommend weight loss, they describe the supposed benefits but remain silent about the harms—reduced metabolism, increased appetite, hormonal disruption, eating disorders, and profound mental health impacts. This ethical failure extends beyond outdated diet advice to newer interventions like GLP-1 medications, where we celebrate short-term metabolic improvements while ignoring gastrointestinal distress, financial burden, social isolation, and unknown long-term consequences.
In this episode, Asher challenges the dangerous assumption that fat people should suffer to become thinner, exposing how this narrative serves the weight loss industry's profits while treating fat bodies as unworthy of basic ethical consideration in healthcare.
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- WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: Get a free script when you sign up
- THE WEIGHTING ROOM: A community where authenticity thrives and every voice matters
- The CONSULTING ROOM: Get answers to all your medical questions via DM or Voice Note PLUS access to my entire library of paid resources
- CONSULTATION: For the ultimate transformation in your healthcare journe
- THE WEIGH FORWARD: For people who are being denied surgery because of their weight
- FREE GUIDES:Evidence-based, not diet nonsense
Chapters
1. Ignoring the Harm: Why We Justify Suffering for Weight Loss (00:00:00)
2. Welcome and Episode Introduction (00:00:41)
3. The Long List of Harms from Intentional Weight Loss (00:07:54)
4. Why We Ignore the Harm Weight Loss Causes (00:14:48)
5. The Truth About GLP-1s (00:23:50)
6. You Don't Deserve to Suffer (00:27:41)
122 episodes
Manage episode 518981030 series 2973559
When doctors recommend weight loss, they describe the supposed benefits but remain silent about the harms—reduced metabolism, increased appetite, hormonal disruption, eating disorders, and profound mental health impacts. This ethical failure extends beyond outdated diet advice to newer interventions like GLP-1 medications, where we celebrate short-term metabolic improvements while ignoring gastrointestinal distress, financial burden, social isolation, and unknown long-term consequences.
In this episode, Asher challenges the dangerous assumption that fat people should suffer to become thinner, exposing how this narrative serves the weight loss industry's profits while treating fat bodies as unworthy of basic ethical consideration in healthcare.
Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know!
Connect With Me
- WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: Get a free script when you sign up
- THE WEIGHTING ROOM: A community where authenticity thrives and every voice matters
- The CONSULTING ROOM: Get answers to all your medical questions via DM or Voice Note PLUS access to my entire library of paid resources
- CONSULTATION: For the ultimate transformation in your healthcare journe
- THE WEIGH FORWARD: For people who are being denied surgery because of their weight
- FREE GUIDES:Evidence-based, not diet nonsense
Chapters
1. Ignoring the Harm: Why We Justify Suffering for Weight Loss (00:00:00)
2. Welcome and Episode Introduction (00:00:41)
3. The Long List of Harms from Intentional Weight Loss (00:07:54)
4. Why We Ignore the Harm Weight Loss Causes (00:14:48)
5. The Truth About GLP-1s (00:23:50)
6. You Don't Deserve to Suffer (00:27:41)
122 episodes
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