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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and Mounjaro are transforming lives, yet there is another side to the story that rarely appears on social media. In this episode, Chalene Johnson examines how influencer culture, black-market “research chemicals,” and questionable compounding pharmacies are profiting from the growing demand. She explores the risks of rapid weight loss that can quietly diminish muscle mass and the rise of MLM-style promotions aimed at midlife women. Listeners will gain insight into the realities behind the trend and learn ways to avoid potentially dangerous shortcuts.
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0:00.0 | something just feels off. I'm a fan of GLP ones. I think they're miraculous. They're saving lives. |
0:08.2 | There are so many incredible benefits aside from just the weight loss. I've had experts on my show. |
0:13.5 | I've been talking about them for more than two years. I've seen the way that they've completely |
0:18.0 | transformed people's lives, made people healthier, and they've |
0:21.8 | probably saved the healthcare industry, I don't know, billions of dollars. They're amazing, |
0:27.7 | and they're here to stay. But something feels off. Something doesn't seem right. And I want to talk |
0:35.6 | about it. For context, I want you to know that this episode is, |
0:42.5 | it's from my own lens. And I realize like my own experience is probably why I feel triggered by |
0:49.1 | so much of what I'm seeing. I'm perfectly aware of that. And where that stems from is I was a consumer fitness |
0:55.6 | person. So you might recognize me from late night infomercials. I've done tons of different |
1:01.3 | fitness infomercials. I was a fitness person before I started selling fitness on TV with an |
1:06.6 | infomercial company. And once I got caught up in that and literally caught up in that, |
1:12.5 | it was no longer something I did for passion. It was something I was caught up in doing it for |
1:18.8 | profits. And I was wrapped up in the consumerism of it all. And in order for a fitness program |
1:25.0 | to be marketable, you have to be smaller. And so I was told in no |
1:29.8 | uncertain terms from producers and partners that I worked with it. Like, okay, in order to sell what |
1:36.5 | it is you've created next, people want to see that you are getting smaller because smaller sells. |
1:42.3 | When it comes to women's fitness, when it comes to health, when it comes to women's fitness when it comes to health |
1:45.0 | and when it comes to anything related to women smaller is better and that was a message |
1:49.6 | and in order for me to get smaller I did do things that were really unhealthy and had nothing |
1:56.1 | to do with improving people's health bottom line and there was a moment when I was filming an infomercial |
2:04.0 | and I was looking into the camera and saying things that I knew were not going to help her, |
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