Hello and welcome back to Agrak.

I'm Jed Wolpaw and I am thrilled to have a fabulous show for you today.

I have with me, Dr. Tyler Jones, and we are going to talk about the two really interesting topics of SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP1 receptor agonists.

Kind of the myths and truths about those.

And Tyler is a fabulous guest.

So he works at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles.

He teaches CRNA students there, and he recently became more certified in obesity medicine, which is really fascinating. And maybe he'll

tell us a little bit about that. And he's going to split his practice between that and anesthesia.

He doesn't have any disclosures, but he does have this really fabulous blog called

Anesthesia Thoughts.

And he talks about kind of, and Tyler, I'll let you tell us a little more, but really

interesting things that maybe people have misconceptions about or that are maybe a little

practice not in the way the evidence might suggest.

And so that, I find it really interesting and really, really worth a

visit to his blog. And then we're going to talk about two of those things today. So, Tyler,

welcome to the show. Thank you, Chad. Tell me a little bit about how you got started with

the blog, Anesthesia Thoughts. I've long had a passion for education for myself and for other people.

And keeping up on the literature is pretty difficult because there are more studies published every month than any one of us can read.

And quite frankly, most of these articles that come out are not super relevant to the day-to-day practice of anesthesia.

It's really important to do a lot of investigation into smaller things like how anesthesia works,

but to try to sit between articles like that and an article about a new pain medication that I could use every day in my practice is difficult.

So part of my impetus to start blog was to try to

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