Miracle Drugs & Quick Fixes with Dr. Nick Tiller

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Is there such a thing as a quick fix? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly learn about the science behind a wave of new weight loss drugs, the ethics of Ozempic use, and off-label prescriptions with exercise scientist, Dr. Nick Tiller.

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0:00.0	Coming up on StarTalk, our guest is Dr. Nick Tiller,
0:03.3	is an exercise physiologist,
0:05.2	and we talk about the use of off-label drug prescriptions
0:09.4	like ozempic, and other life-changing downstream benefits
0:15.4	they might hold.
0:17.4	In that case, it's weight loss,
0:18.8	but might it also curb addiction of any kind?
0:22.5	Is there such a thing as a quick fix?
0:25.4	All that and more coming up on StarTalk.
0:29.5	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:33.5	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:38.7	StarTalk begins right now.
0:42.7	This is StarTalk.
0:45.1	You'll be grasped ice in here.
0:46.7	You're a personal astrophysicist,
0:48.7	and this is special edition,
0:51.1	where we're going to be talking about medical quick fixes.
0:56.7	I got with me my two co-host, Gary, Gary O'Reilly.
0:59.9	How you doing, man?
1:00.7	I'm good, now.
1:01.5	All right.
1:01.9	Be on.
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