Episode 183: GLP-1 Medications, Food Noise, and Binge Eating Recovery (with Marcus Kain)

Brain over Binge Podcast

Kathryn Hansen

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Kathryn welcomes back Marcus Kain for a thoughtful conversation about the increasing use of GLP-1 medications (like Ozempic and Wegovy) in the context of binge eating recovery and weight loss. They discuss the significant risks—especially for those with a history of restrictive eating—while also acknowledging that some individuals have experienced benefits when these medications are used cautiously under medical supervision.

This episode is not to provide medical advice or promote the use of any medication; it’s an honest, nuanced discussion about a complex and evolving topic. Kathryn and Marcus hold space for differing perspectives and emphasize that full recovery is absolutely possible and unique to each individual.

Episodes mentioned on this show:

Ep. 131: Ozempic and Eating Disorders with Robyn Goldberg RDN, CEDS-C

Ep. 90: Letting Go of Unrealistic Recovery Goals and Unhealthy Fitness Standards (with Marcus Kain)
Ep. 119: How Does Fitness Fit Into Recovery? (with Marcus Kain)
Ep. 167: Healthy Goal Setting and Sustainable Change in the New Year (with Marcus Kain)

Learn more about Marcus Kain:

StrongNotStarving.com
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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Over Binge podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending
0:10.2	binge eating. I'm Catherine Hansen, author of Brain Over Binge and the Brain Over Binge Recovery
0:15.4	Guide. I'm so glad you're here, and I hope that this podcast will provide the ideas and the
0:20.5	insights you need to help
0:21.9	you end your struggle with food. Today I'm happy to share a recent conversation that I had with
0:26.8	Marcus Kane. Marcus has been on the show a few times already and I always look forward to our
0:31.5	conversations because he brings such a thoughtful, compassionate, and well-balanced perspective
0:36.4	to everything that we talk about.
0:38.5	Marcus overcame his own 15-year struggle with an eating disorder, and now he helps others do the
0:43.8	same. And he also works with people to change their relationship with exercise. I'll link to our
0:49.1	prior conversations in the show description, which mostly center around fitness as it's related to recovery.
0:55.4	The conversation that Marcus and I had for this episode is a little different, and it's a
0:59.7	topic that I've been a bit hesitant to discuss, because as we'll say in the episode, there's
1:05.1	simply so much that we don't know at this point. But we're going to talk about semi-glutide
1:09.6	medications and other similar
1:11.1	gLP-1 medications that are being prescribed more and more in the world of weight loss,
1:16.1	compulsive overeating, and binge eating. This episode is definitely not about promoting these
1:21.2	medications or giving medical advice. And this is actually the second time that I've
1:25.8	discussed these medications in detail on the show.
1:28.9	The prior episode was in 2023 with eating disorder specialist and registered dietitian
1:34.4	Robin Goldberg.
1:35.7	That was episode 131 titled Ozympic and Eating Disorders.
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