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With me right now though in studio back with us for a different reason

Johann Hari New York Times best-selling author remember stolen focus well now he's got a

brand new book out it's something that I know you if you're not using it personally you've talked about it it's called

Magic Pill the extraordinary benefits and disturbing risk of the new weight loss

drugs. Johann welcome.

Hi Brian great to be back. First off I got a notice from you you have lost weight.

You just is that what prompted the writing of this book did you use OZMPIC?

Yeah it was it was a mixture of things really the first time I learned about OZEMPIC

I remember just feeling so

kind of torn because part of me thought wow this is going to be huge and there's

going to be great health benefits to this right I'm older now than my grandfather ever

got to be because he died of a heart attack when he was 44

He wasn't in good shape? No and we know that obesity makes a huge array of problems much more like it's actually 200 diseases and complications and may more likely

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