Fatima Cody-Stanford

Dr. Fatima Cody-Stanford, an obesity medicine physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, offers clinical perspective on obesity and GLP-1 therapies. She discusses how cheap, engineered food and industry tactics helped fuel the obesity rise. She explains how semaglutide class drugs change appetite biology and how new treatments shift stigma and economics around body weight.

Gladys McLean, a family cook who adapts Southern recipes for healthier eating, Nicole Curry, a reporter who explored cooking and culture with her aunt, Dr. Ayla Stanford, a pediatric surgeon and health equity advocate running for Congress, and Dr. Fatima Cody-Stanford, an obesity medicine physician-scientist, discuss culturally tailored nutrition, community-based trust-building in care, structural drivers of health disparities, and efforts to expand access to quality care.