yes it will, We have crossed the Rubicon on obesity treatment. We have new tools and now it's time to learn how to use them.

Obesity care should be personalized anyways for each individual person whether child, teenager, adult or the elderly. As stated above many factors influence obesity, social factors are huge because if a person grows up in a home where they only have access to certain foods or eat certain things culturally then this is a big issue that separates individuals and treatment plans like seeing a nutritionist to help navigate diet and find healthier alternatives to the foods the person is used too. Also things like mental disorders also should be addressed but this is another factor that can greatly impact obesity but can be tackled with CBT and potentially medications.

I have used Wegovy in adolescents with varied success. The biggest challenge is lifestyle modifications which are difficult to achieve in this population of patients

But who is going to pay for all of this? I can see insurance company denials stamped all over each intervention

Start with family support structures, community food, access, and over eating regional policies. Eating behaves physical activities, sleep and stress factors, long-term behavior and structure routine habits building.

Childhood obesity rightly should be a focus. It is a complex issue and I feel it is important that medication not take the place of the need for intense lifestyle interventions. Medication may be appropriate for a few patients, but the majority require focused and ongoing nutritional and behavioral health support.

This highlights the many different factors that can impact treatment responses, I find this very helpful and interested in phenotypes.