Johann Hari: What They Don't Tell You About Ozempic

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Johann Hari Exposes SHOCKING Secrets About "Magic" Weight Loss Drugs. Discover What They DON’T Tell You About Ozempic. Johann Hari (bestselling author, author of MAGIC PLL: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs) reveals how his childhood trauma led him to uncover the DARK SIDE of society's obesity epidemic and exposes the 12 RISKS of GLP-1 drugs, from depression and suicidal thoughts, to malnutrition and the startling impact on those with disordered eating. He discusses why he had contradictory feelings when he first learned about the potential benefits of these drugs as he opens up about his prior struggle with obesity and his own experience taking GLP-1 drugs, including why he started feeling worse emotionally and how his relationship with food has changed. Uncover the hidden agenda behind these drugs—they might save lives, but at what cost? And what impact will this have on the body positivity movement? Johann dives deep into the biological, psychological, and social factors fueling this crisis. It's a wake-up call for society—can we REVERSE the damage before it's too late? PLUS, find out the surprising impact of these drugs on addiction recovery and the economic fallout of challenging the obesity industrial complex! Johann Hari explains the cruel reality that it's NOT YOUR FAULT you can't lose weight! Don't miss out on understanding the real causes of obesity and why willpower alone isn't enough. TUNE IN to MBB today!

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0:00.0	There's been this extraordinary scientific breakthrough.
0:06.0	We now have a weight loss drug that produces staggering amounts of weight loss.
0:10.3	The first time I learned about this I immediately felt two totally contradictory things.
0:16.0	The first thing I thought was, well this could save my life.
0:19.5	The second thing I thought was, wait a minute, this sounds way too good to be true.
0:24.8	I ended up going on this big journey all over the world to interview the leading experts,
0:28.5	the biggest critics of the drugs, the biggest defenders of the drugs.
0:32.4	It had an effect that I really did not see coming.
0:35.1	It was the strangest thing because I was getting what I wanted. I was losing loads of weight.
0:39.2	I did feel physically better. But weirdly, I did not feel emotionally better and if anything I felt
0:45.8	slightly worse and I remember very consciously a voice in my mind saying you're just
0:51.1	going to have to feel bad now.
0:52.8	There it is.
0:54.0	At the moment, people like me have a choice that is really painful.
0:57.3	It's between a risky medical condition
0:59.5	and a risky set of drugs.
1:01.1	That doesn't have to be the choice. 47% of Americans want to take these
1:05.6	new weight loss drugs. How the fuck did we get here? How do we get to the point where
1:10.6	half the population want to take a drug to reduce their eating, what's going on.
1:14.6	What I would like us to do is skip the bit where we give absolutely everyone who wants it,
1:20.3	whether they need it or not, weight loss drugs get a massive death
1:23.8	toll of young girls who starve themselves to death in a way they would not have
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