Shantanu Gaur decided that the world was too fat, and he knew he could change it. It’s painful to watch people pick through the plunder at a salad bar. The mind says “salad,” but the heart says “bacon bits, cheese, ranch dressing and … screw it, switch to ice cream and call it a day.” The reality is we’re addicted to feeling bad about ourselves, and nowhere is this more evident than in how we feel about our weight. According to a just-released World Health Organization report, worldwide obesity has tripled since the late ’70s, and as recently as 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight. Enter Dr. Shantanu Gaur, whose Allurion Technologies has raised $27 million in the past year as it gets ready for FDA approval of Elipse Therapy, a novel nonsurgical treatment for obesity: a pill that inflates a balloon in your stomach. | 