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Food, We Need To Talk

OZEMPIC - The "Magical" Weight Loss Drug

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

You’ve seen it on the news, on Tiktok, and on magazine covers. Ozempic is being credited as a magical weight loss solution, allegedly responsible for countless celebrity transformations, and everyone is talking about it. But now, people with diabetes who need the medication are having trouble getting it. What is Ozempic? How does it work? Why does it cause weight loss and is it safe to use? Today, we talk to Dr. Shauna Levy, an assistant professor at Tulane University School of Medicine and a double board certified physician in General Surgery and Obesity Medicine.

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Other episodes we mentioned:

The Health Effects of Being Called “Fat”

How to Create Habits and Hack Your Health

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Find Juna on Instagram @theofficialjuna, and @JunaGjata on YouTube and TikTok.

Transcript

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0:00.0

First things first guys we have Eddie the man the myth legend himself back in the studio

0:07.3

today back from the wild yes I was up on the Canadian border in northern New Hampshire

0:14.2

where it just juts into Canada off on a skiing vacation with some people like just met

0:19.8

a way off the grid no electricity no running water what an adventure it was phenomenal

0:24.4

but I'm back people you just met yes you're the middle of nowhere people you didn't know

0:30.9

it's a great story but my wife said to me as I got into the car you really have no social

0:37.0

anxiety that's like oh my god so anyways I want to give Eddie a chance to tell you guys

0:44.0

the special news that I feel like I totally stole a thunder in our last little mini episode

0:48.5

that I want Eddie to be able to say it so the news is that you and I wrote a book

0:54.1

whoo guess what it's called take a wild guess guys food we need to talk the science

1:01.7

based humor-laced last word on eating diet and making peace with your body you can get

1:08.8

it now as a pre-order in a hardcover an e-book or even as an audiobook read by you

1:17.3

woo so if you're interested in pre-ordering which really helps us out thank you so much

1:23.2

to everybody who has pre-ordered already you guys the emails I'm getting there have been

1:27.0

so many nice messages so thank you so much to those of you that have already pre-ordered

1:31.2

and for those of you that haven't yet the link will be in our show notes or you can go to our

1:35.5

website food we need to talk dot com slash book it really lets the publishers know that people

1:41.1

are actually interested in this book so I know I'm a procrastinator like when people have pre-order

1:45.9

links and like whatever I'll get it when it comes out just know guys it does help us out to pre-order

1:50.9

now instead of later just because it helps us seem like we actually have people that want to

1:56.5

read this book wouldn't that be awesome and as a way to say thank you if you do pre-order then send

2:02.6

us an email at food we need to talk at gmail dot com or message us on instagram and we'll be

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