Being the greatest tennis player of all time does not mean anybody should listen to Serena about taking weight loss drugs.
But that's exactly what people are going to do and Big Pharma executives are laughing all the way to the bank.
This is Big Pharma's billions of dollars at work, using a friendly and familiar face to convince people that they need to be on a prescription drug for the rest of their life.
Serena drank the Kool-Aid and now she's selling it.
Celebrity does not equal competence.
Any doctor will tell you that the only thing these GLP-1 drugs do is suppress your appetite. You eat less calories, so you lose weight.
It's that simple.
There is no miracle.
Serena Williams and Oprah and Charles Barkley and [insert celebrity] have lost weight on GLP-1 drugs because they are consuming less calories.
That's it.
There's nothing new or miraculous about creating a daily caloric deficit. It's simple behavior change.
You do not have to go on medication for the rest of your life to create a daily caloric deficit.
MAN, we are in desperate need of basic food education in this country!
I'm talking to YOU, chef!
People need you to teach them how food works and hosting a cooking show on YouTube is a great way for you to do it.
These folks promoting these GLP-1 drugs are simply eating the diet that they could have and should have been eating before they started taking the drugs.
They take these drugs AND THEN change what and how they eat and their body responds.
It's the dietary change that produces the results, not the drug.
What these folks never show you is a before and after audit of their daily food and drink consumption. They show you before and after pictures, but not a before and after audit of what they were consuming every day.
And as far as being a professional athlete goes, you cannot outrun a bad diet.
There is no amount of strength training you can do to overpower a bad diet.
There are overweight professional athletes in every sport because there is no amount of physical activity you can do that you can't out-eat.
It is very easy to consume 2000 or 3000 calories PER MEAL. Multiply that across 3 meals per day plus snacking, sweets, and alcohol and there's no amount of physical activity that can create a weekly caloric deficit.
People get on these GLP-1s AND THEN clean up their diet.
It's not the drugs that cause the weight loss, it's the behavior change and dietary change.
Food is medicine.
You can teach people that with your cooking show and make a whole lot of money doing it.
