Peter Attia· MD
And there's been some relented of the rate of increase excuse me in obesity in both adults and and children but it's looks like it's still rising although at a lower rate do you have concern that there are epigenetic implications of this that 10,000 years ago the prevalence of obesity again largely probably driven by the environment that made it pretty hard to become obese not just in terms of food availability in terms of absolute calories but presumably the types of calories that were available I mean I think my recollection is that 10,000 years ago nothing came in a package right as far as we know all right so we didn't have pop-tarts we didn't have breakfast cereal we didn't have orange juice we didn't have french fries and whatever else are the culprit potentials so if Johnny got a set of genes that were slightly suboptimal Johnny jr. probably got some of those suboptimal genes but there was nothing being imprinted on the genome that was being transmitted to generations and I mean what do you think about this idea that we could be reaching kind of a dangerous point in the evolution of our species where children may be during critical windows of development if exposed to you know again in my opinion it's probably a lot of this sort of really highly refined crap high amounts of fructose that we're seeing with the novel D that this is setting them up for a real problem later in life it's gonna make it a lot harder not just for them to lose weight one day but also for their offspring