What Chris Thompson has said about Ghrelin
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 21, 2026
Chris Thompson, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham, has been quoted on Ghrelin once in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Thompson states that adding fundal ghrelin-cell ablation to ESG raises weight loss from about 18% to over 20%, possibly 25%.
“So the weight loss goes from about 18% with the ESG alone in a top center, goes up to way over 20%, maybe 25% if you start ablating the ghrelin”
Huberman Lab: Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 2:09:08
Episodes
Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris ThompsonHuberman Lab · Sep 21, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Andrew Huberman and gastroenterologist Chris Thompson discuss gut anatomy, fiber and the microbiome, GLP-1 drugs, early metabolic testing, gut permeability, and endoscopic and gene-therapy obesity treatments.
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