Adi Joaquim Tolentino

In a Facebook reel, Dr. Tony Leachon talked about the lack of a critical hormone in the body that is essential for losing weight.


CLAIM: Dr. Tony Leachon claims hormone deficiency in losing weight

RATING: FALSE

CONCLUSION: The Facebook reel where Dr. Tony Leachon, a health reform advocate, reports the lack of a critical hormone in the body is AI-edited.


In the 2-minute reel posted by CodeNow Magazine, Journalist Jessica Soho reported ‘good news’ about the method of losing weight by Dr. Tony Leachon.

The claim in this reel is FALSE.

The interview with Dr. Leachon in the video is purely AI-edited as it contains random cuts and shows the mouth to be lipsyncing.

This was used to falsely advertise a product about a ‘critical hormone’ that the body needs to lose weight.

The hormone was not specifically mentioned in the reel and the statistics by the ‘National Center of the Philippines’ were made up by the creator.

Aside from this, the reel mentioned that 27,000 Filipinos already tried the product which is fictional as no study supported this claim.