The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Serena Williams is the Pioneer in its purest form, a leader who treated barriers as material to be dismantled. Over more than two decades she redefined professional tennis, confronting structural inequities of race, gender, and physicality while amassing 23 Grand Slam singles titles, an Open Era record.
“That's what I've discovered. And what I'll say is, you know, when I went to medical school, it was the late 1990s. We didn't have one lecture about obesity. These medicines didn't exist and we didn't know about the biology of obesity. Leptin had just been discovered the hormone that your fat makes that communicates with the brain.”
“About the risk versus benefit. We know right now the benefit of treating patients with obesity to prevent all of these obesity-related diseases is clear. There are many studies coming out about heart disease, about preventing diabetes, about treating me osteoarthritis, about obstructive sleep apnea. All these things are coming out.”
“What it is So, food noise is a manifestation of that biology, of that striving to survive. So basically what happens is if we are living below our set point or our enough point. So again, in Oprah's case, 211 pounds, what happens is her body's like, well, we got to find a way to eat more. You got to eat more.”
“Let me concentrate really, really hard and make my blood sugars normal. We would never say that to a patient. Why do we say, okay, for the rest of your life, control every morsel of food that you're eating, control every movement that you're doing for the rest of your life? Why would we ever do that? Let's treat the biology.”
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