Session 426: Understanding GLP-1s
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford joins us for a compassionate conversation about weight, health, and healing. We're exploring why obesity should be understood as a chronic disease, not a moral failing, and discussing new treatment options like GLP-1 medications that are changing lives.
Dr. Stanford is an obesity medicine Physician-Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. What makes her perspective so valuable is that she understands the unique experiences of Black women navigating weight and health in a world that often judges us harshly. As one of the few Black women leading research in this field, she sees how chronic stress, systemic barriers, and generational trauma show up in our bodies in ways that traditional medicine has often overlooked. During our conversation, we talk about the science behind weight regulation, how new medications actually work, and why it's time to move beyond BMI as the only measure of health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:30.0 | For more information or to find a therapist in your area, visit our website at Therapy for Blackgirls.com. While I hope you love listening to |
| 0:40.4 | and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute for a relationship with a licensed |
| 0:47.1 | mental health professional. |
| 0:56.4 | Hey, y'all. |
| 1:00.4 | Thanks so much for joining us for session 426 of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast. |
| 1:01.7 | We'll get right into our conversation after a word from our sponsors. |
| 1:09.3 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 1:18.1 | Today, Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford joins us for a compassionate conversation about weight, health, and healing. |
| 1:26.9 | We're exploring why obesity should be understood as a |
| 1:29.8 | chronic disease and not a moral failing, and discussing new treatment options like GLP1 |
| 1:35.8 | medications that are changing lives. Dr. Stanford brings both scientific expertise and deep |
| 1:42.0 | empathy to this work. She's an obesity medicine physician |
| 1:46.0 | sciences at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. What makes her perspective |
| 1:51.8 | so valuable is that she understands the unique experiences of black women navigating |
| 1:56.2 | weight and health in a world that often judges us harshly. As one of the few black women leading research |
| 2:02.9 | in this field, she sees how chronic stress, systemic barriers, and generational trauma |
| 2:08.3 | show up in our bodies in ways that traditional medicine has often overlooked. During our conversation, |
| 2:15.2 | we talk about the science behind weight regulation, how new medications actually work, and why it's time to move beyond VMI as the only measure of health. |
| 2:25.5 | Most importantly, Dr. Stanford reminds us that seeking help for weight-related health concerns isn't giving up or taking the easy way out, is taking care of yourself with |
| 2:34.7 | the same compassion you'd show a loved one. If something resonates with you while enjoying our |
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