Are Botox, Fillers and GLP1’s Changing Not Just Our Bodies, But Our Minds Too?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As we’re slowly learning more about drugs like Ozempic, we’re also finding out more about their side effects. Does botox reduce our ability to empathise? Are we all just numbing ourselves from the world in the pursuit of self optimisation?
In this week’s episode, hosts Ione and Gina dig into how people are using tweakments not just for their advertised effects - but for the ways they change our emotions and habits.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Iione. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if we didn't already know, members get a free copy of every zine we put out |
| 0:21.0 | as well as lots of extra picks like one-on-one mentoring a group WhatsApp where you talk to me |
| 0:27.2 | Ionia and many others and loads loads more sign up via the link in our description do we have |
| 0:32.6 | any reviews Ioni do we no no well we. I didn't want to talk about it. It's too atrocious and cruel. Nasty. Nasty. |
| 0:45.3 | Nasty. Don't go looking for it either. Look for it if you want. But make sure you say nice things. |
| 0:50.9 | But we do have Spotify. And Spotify keeps pumping off, which I really like. |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, I do enjoy it. |
| 0:56.0 | If you're Spotify commenter, please know in our hearts that we love it. Yeah, we do. Mozy says, OK, girls, I'm coming right back to listen when I've watched it. This is about the drama, obviously. Thank you. Thank you, we hope you did. And then Sky says, |
| 1:08.6 | Loved this episode, just watched the drama over the weekend and have been down a social media rabbit hole. |
| 1:13.3 | So interesting that you mentioned Eliza. And then Sky says, Loved this episode, just watched the drama over the weekend |
| 1:10.9 | and have been down a social media rabbit hole. |
| 1:13.2 | So interesting that you mentioned Eliza Clark's penance as a British comparison |
| 1:16.6 | as I've been thinking about this over the past few days. |
| 1:19.2 | I also wonder if a similar type of discourse would come up if penance was adapted. |
| 1:23.0 | So many great thoughts. |
| 1:24.1 | Thanks, girls. |
| 1:25.2 | Thanks, Sky. |
| 1:25.9 | Thanks, Sky. |
| 1:26.5 | Thanks, Sky. |
| 1:27.3 | Thank you. That episode went off. I know. Wasn't |
| 1:30.2 | expecting it. Why? Everyone loves the discourse. Just little old us. |
| 1:37.5 | Having our little chats. Having our little chats. This one, this week was been quite a while in |
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