Editor's note: Today, we bring you the conclusion of Stansberry Digest editor Corey McLaughlin's two-part Q&A with Stansberry Venture Technology editor Dave Lashmet. If you missed Part I from yesterday, you can catch it right here.

We hope you enjoy Dave's incredible insight into the obesity epidemic. And be sure to read to the end to learn how you can become an early investor in a vanishingly rare opportunity in a "20X weight-loss drug" that Dave has recently shared with his subscribers.

The Long-Term Costs of Living 'On the Go'

An interview with Dave Lashmet, editor, Stansberry Venture Technology

Corey McLaughlin: So let's look more at what's causing the obesity epidemic.

Dave Lashmet: It's a lack of exercise and we've moved to foods you can eat while driving and they're filled with salt and sugar. One of my kids lives on those dessert treats that are cinnamon-covered. They're also sugar covered. If they were just cinnamon they'd taste like dirt. It's cinnamon sugar. As we moved from the '40s to the '80s, there were more and more and more, either pre-packaged foods, or fast-foods, or even restaurant foods.

We were looking at the U.S. budgetary expenditure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and half of U.S. expenditures from food were restaurant foods and the other half were grocery store foods. It's amazing that half of U.S. expenditure was food prepared by someone else where you didn't have to do anything but sit and eat it. So the whole "stand in the kitchen for 45 minutes" – that's just gone.

That 45 minutes where you have a higher baseline metabolic burn rate is replaced by sitting.

CM: And all of that adds up, right, over time? The amount of time we're not moving?

DL: In the 1980s, there were probably no moveable sidewalks in airports. Even in the airport [today], you don't have to move. In Atlanta, the biggest airport in the country, you have people-movers. You don't want people to walk from one side of the airport to the other. You just have them stand there, so their baseline metabolic rate plummets.

CM: So that's the thing. We have all this mechanization and just the feeling from people that they need to do everything faster, or keep up whatever it may be...

DL: That's really intriguing. I think mechanization and sugar and salt are the big two. If you wanted a third, you could say insomnia. How do you stay up for an hour to get more stuff done when you would normally have eight hours of sleep? Normal adults just simply don't get eight hours of sleep. We're sort of lowering the standard to seven hours.

How do you stay up for the extra hour? What do you do for that last hour? The answer is, you eat. You're not as active because it's your very last bonus hour of the day and in order to stay up, you have to feed yourself. Because rather than being in a sleeping state you're in a waking state, which has a higher metabolic demand. People are eating through those insomniac hours.

And they're still basically not active. It's not like you can run for your 17th and 18th hour of the day. You can't run during that time. You can't, physically, unless you're a crazy genetic freak. What most people are doing in that last hour of staying up is, work around the house or staying up doing their billing – but you're stealing your sleep hours and you're making it up with active hours. In order to trick your body into staying up later, you're feeding it. But at the same time, you're not as active. You're replacing physical activity with digestive activity. Late-night meals are probably a function of life on-the-go.

Life on-the-go encompasses more mechanization, more fast-food – which is chock-full of salt and sugar – and working longer hours. Or just being awake longer hours, even if it's watching Netflix, and being on-the-go longer is what's driving the epidemic.

CM: It's life on-the-go, but you're not moving as much physically, right? Your body isn't moving as much but you're going different places.

DL: But we see ourselves as life on-the-go. If you woke up, drove to the airport, got on a people-mover, got on a plane, flew to some other place, rolled your roll-able luggage to some vehicle that was waiting for you and then ended up in a hotel, it took your entire day but you didn't physically walk more than 500 steps.

CM: You probably don't get your 10,000 steps in?

DL: There's no way, because everything moves you about. You covered 1,000 miles and probably took 500 steps to do it. That's what "life on-the-go" means.

CM: How much should people be moving each day? Or exercising in a week?

DL: We're starting to take off the lid. So if you went to your cardiologist, even more than your general practitioner, the American Heart Association guidelines are for 40 minutes, 5 times a day... but that's supposed to be a floor [the low end]. But the question is, what's the ceiling? And there's not a ceiling.

We've found 7 hours is better than 4 hours. If it was 1946 and you biked to work and biked home and that would be 7 hours of biking, and there was a mix of downhill, you're dressed against chill and have a big fat tire bike and wind resistance, pedaling uphill, wearing clothing to protect yourself...

Walking 40 minutes, 4 times a week is below what we need. What we probably need is a minimum of 7 hours a week of moderate exercise.

CM: How does obesity factor into the COVID-19 pandemic?

DL: For adults during COVID-19, it's like running a marathon. You use your reserves. Being obese, you have excess tissue to feed with oxygen, and that works the heart and lungs. I looked at the first half of U.S. COVID deaths. At any given age, smoking and obesity quadrupled your risk of hospitalization. Those are things you can control. You can't control your age.

CM: So tell me a little about this breakthrough weight-loss drug that you've found...

DL: There's a saying, "Without troops there is no army, but without generals there are no orders." There's a plan and the body enacts the plan, but the brain sets the plan. The company that we follow found a part of the human brain that regulates your set point for being cold or being warm.

If you live in a cold climate, you burn more fat to stay warm. But it also controls hunger. There's a group of Native Americans in southern Arizona that live in the desert. They're really good historically at preparing for famine. Why? Because they live in a desert. It's a survival advantage for them to rapidly store energy and hold onto it. So they have a super low metabolic set point. If they eat anything, it goes straight to their hips. Why? Because they needed it to.

Meanwhile, there's a bunch of Europeans, and they have a higher metabolism from exactly the same gene. Based on their age and economic cohort, which we can track by ZIP code, they're significantly thinner than other Europeans, based on age and gender. If you turn up the switch, you're thinner. If you turn down the switch, you're fatter, and it's deep in your brain. And that's what this small company owns a drug for.

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