2025-07-11
32 分钟Hi, my name is Michelle Tedder from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Today on a special episode of Health Discovered, we take a closer look at weight management.
And I have struggled with my weight my entire life.
I developed type 2 diabetes.
My blood pressure was getting higher and higher, joint issues, sleep apnea.
For decades, obesity was wrongly viewed as simply a matter of willpower or lifestyle choices.
I mean fasting, keto, low carb, high protein, vegetarian, you name it, I tried it.
But science has revealed a much more complex reality.
One where genetics, hormones and biology play significant roles in determining weight.
I was the person who was, you know,
collecting the data and looking at how people were losing and people would come and get on the scale.
I was doing the same things they were doing and I was watching the scale go down for them and it wasn't going down for me.
And I'm like, what is happening?
Like, why, why is this my life?
Like, why can't I have the same success?
And so I was sharing this with my physician and she sat me down and she said,
Michelle, this is not your fault.
There's an underlying metabolic issue going on,
and there's other evidence-based tools that are available that we know work.
Nobody had ever said that to me.