Kelly's Favorite Conversations: The Truth About Ozempic: A Conversation on GLP-1s, Obesity, and Prevention with Dr. Alexandra Sowa (The Velvet)
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Dr. Alexandra Sowa, author of The Ozempic Revolution, joins to dive into the rise of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and their impact on health and culture. While Dr. Sowa shares why she believes in the benefits of these medications, she also raises concerns about the way our society is using them as a "quick fix." Her book offers a strategy for users to not only address obesity but also shift toward a lifestyle of prevention and long-term wellness. In this episode, Dr. Sowa challenges common misconceptions about obesity, explaining why it’s a disease, not a failure, and explores why it has become so prevalent in America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.3 | All right. |
| 0:16.0 | If you guys haven't heard about GLP1s, |
| 0:18.6 | which are weight loss drugs like OZmpic. I would say you're probably |
| 0:21.9 | living under a rock. Many people have seen these life-changing weight loss from these drugs, |
| 0:27.3 | but there's also a lot of people who are skeptical, and I can be included in that as, you know, |
| 0:33.5 | what is the longevity of this situation? What are the side effects? And once again, are we just throwing a pill at something that seems to be rooted in a deeper issue? So I always love to do these deep dive so we can set our intentions for the year. So Dr. Alexandra Soa is here. Hi, Dr. Soa. Hi. Thank you so much for having me. So I wanted to first and foremost, just give listeners, like I said, if you haven't heard of Ozimic, I mean, you even brought up to me earlier before we started the podcast about the Golden Globes last night. And immediately, there's a joke made about, oh, look at all the Ozympic faces. It's a huge thing happening in our society. So if you haven't heard of it, it would be crazy. But if someone hasn't, |
| 1:12.2 | can you just say, tell the listeners, what is a GLP1? Yes. So my book is called the Ozempic |
| 1:18.1 | revolution because we've kind of come to lump all these drugs under the name Ozempic. But really, |
| 1:25.3 | we're talking about GLP1 drugs. And GLP1 is a hormone that occurs in the |
| 1:30.3 | body. And it has to do with hunger and satiety regulation and fat storage. And we've now |
| 1:37.7 | figured out a way to make it and actually make it last longer than it does in our body. And it's |
| 1:43.2 | become a very effective tool for blood sugar management, weight management. |
| 1:48.6 | And now we're getting even more indications about how it's helping. |
| 1:51.6 | So GLP1 medications, they mimic a hormone that naturally occurs in the body. |
| 1:58.8 | And that hormone acts all over our body. |
| 2:01.7 | But really the three big ways that it works are brain, gut, and pancreas at the level of |
| 2:07.7 | blood sugar. |
| 2:08.9 | So we've had weight management tools before. |
| 2:12.3 | And we were practicing this field long before these weekly injectables came to fruition, |
| 2:18.6 | but we've never had anything quite as effective. And that's why we're all talking about it, because for the |
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