New York Times bestselling author! Johann Hari, MAGIC PILL: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Journalist and bestselling author Johann Hari chats with Zibby about MAGIC PILL, a fascinating and timely examination of the new drugs transforming weight loss—from his personal experience on Ozempic to our society’s dysfunctional relationship with food. Johann, who has a family history of heart disease linked to obesity, provides a comprehensive and nuanced explanation of the risks and benefits of weight-loss drugs. He and Zibby share their firsthand experiences with them, and then Johann delves into the broader societal factors contributing to the obesity epidemic.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:08.1	I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.
0:14.2	I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company,
0:19.5	reading retreats, a bookstore, and more.
0:21.9	Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at
0:28.4	Zivie Readers.
0:31.9	Johan Hari is the author of Magic Pill, the extraordinary benefits and disturbing risks
0:36.7	of the new weight loss drugs.
0:38.5	Johan is a writer and journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Lamonde,
0:42.3	The Guardian, and other newspapers. His TED talks have been viewed over 70 million times,
0:47.5	and his work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah Winfrey to Noam Chomsky to Joe Rogan.
0:53.4	He is the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, Lost Connections, and Stolen Focus.
0:59.3	Welcome, Johan.
1:00.5	Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss magic pill,
1:05.2	the extraordinary benefits and disturbing risks of the new weight loss drugs.
1:09.2	Congratulations on your book.
1:10.8	Oh, thank you so much. I'm really excited to be with you.
1:13.4	I feel like the subtitle should have been something like one man's journey through multiple
1:19.3	countries and through, you know, you know what I mean? Like there's so much first person
1:24.8	reporting that goes on and your own emotions and all of that,
1:28.1	as opposed to like a strict factual thing about weight loss drugs.
1:32.2	Yeah, it was very personal to me.
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