When Obesity Becomes a Disease: A Clinical Perspective with Dr. Timothy Garvey

In this episode of MyHeart.net , cardiologist Dr. Alan Bouchard sits down with Dr. Timothy Garvey , Professor of Medicine in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to discuss the evolving definition of obesity as a disease. Drawing from The Lancet ’s 2025 clinical framework, Dr. Garvey explains when excess adiposity begins to impair organ function, how…