YouTube Video on Your Brain And Weight Management: The Gatekeeper, The Go-Getter And The Sleepy Executive

Posted by Dr. Sue Pedersen | Jun 14, 2020 | Uncategorized

Ever wonder how your brain regulates your weight? There are thousands of medical articles explaining what we know about this, but the medical-ese can be challenging to dig through.

Dr. David Macklin, obesity medicine physician in Toronto, has made the complex role of the brain in managing weight easily digestible (pun intended) – and fun! – with his three cartoon characters: The Gate Keeper, The GoGetter, and the Sleepy Executive.

Check out this amazing YouTube Video to understand weight management like never before!

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Dr. Sue Pedersen

I am a medical doctor, Specialist in Endocrinology & Metabolism, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. After completing my training as an Endocrinologist in 2005 at the University of Calgary, I have worked in Calgary, at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatchewan, and at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. I have a busy clinical practice at C-ENDO Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinic in Calgary, caring for patients with diabetes, obesity, thyroid, and other hormone issues. I am also involved in clinical research in diabetes and obesity. I am the lead author of the 2020 and 2022 Pharmacotherapy Chapters of the Canadian Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines, and a member of the Expert Committee for the 2018 Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines as an author on the Weight Management chapter. I am passionate, enthusiastic, and driven to help conquer the stigma against obesity; educate health care professionals and the public about obesity and diabetes; and to help us become a healthier society!