It’s no understatement to say that Sloan Saunders constantly has the weight of the world on his mind. That’s because the Intellihealth CEO’s mission is to democratize and scale access to effective obesity medicine for as many people as possible. One of Intellihealth’s approaches is educating both patients and providers to think critically with new perspectives about how to actually tip the scales toward better health.
What makes the Intellihealth model different? For starters, it recognizes that obesity is a chronic disease and not something that is merely cured through lifestyle changes. “What most people don’t recognize is that obesity is a dramatically misunderstood chronic disease,” Saunders says. “It functions on multiple pathways, whether it be neurologic, metabolic, or hormonal. Most people mistake it for a behavior or lifestyle issue. The solution for obesity is not to shout louder but to understand how it actually functions as a chronic disease.”
