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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S4-E11.3 - Fighting for Fair Regulation Around What’s Deemed “Healthy”
Description: The Surfers are joined by Jeff McIntyre of the Global Liver Institute (GLI) for a thought-provoking impromptu session on what’s happening thus far for the Fatty Liver field in 2023. In this conversation, Jeff continues on collaborative work by GLI to more formally “medicalize” obesity as a term considerate of genetic backgrounds and metabolic dynaminisms. He relates this grappling around nomenclature to that experienced in the Fatty Liver forum. Comments shift toward the subject of nutrition and an ominous landscape of public health policy. Jeff calls for hepatology associations to join efforts in assessing package nutrition labeling, advocating for reduct...