The Incredible Upsides and Disturbing Downsides of the New Weight Loss Medications with Johann Hari
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today, we speak to Johann Hari, author of the new book The Magic Pill. The new weight loss medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy have been exploding in popularity over the past couple of years. Unlike dieting, these drugs can cause rapid weight loss with seemingly little effort from the person taking them. However, they also come with a wide array of risks that don't often get discussed. What are the implications these medications have for people with eating disorders? Why are they associated with drastic muscle mass loss? Why are some scientists warning about their affect on depression? Obesity has many risks, but so do these medications. Today, we discuss the complex calculation posed by the new weight loss medications.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a quick warning there are curse words in today's episode, but there's not many and there's a lot of good information |
| 0:07.4 | Eddie, there is something that we talk about in almost every episode. It's my favorite. |
| 0:12.6 | What is it? |
| 0:13.6 | What is it? Oh, actually no. |
| 0:15.6 | Oh, that was a good guess. |
| 0:17.6 | All right. Well, what is it then? |
| 0:19.8 | Okay, ready? |
| 0:20.8 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, Zampik, chchch, you know, oh, it's O'Zampic. |
| 0:29.1 | You notice I did not join into the song, but... |
| 0:31.1 | I know, why did you not sing the song you left me out hanging let me drive the oh word yeah the |
| 0:37.2 | oh word okay so I'm not sure what your experience has been but I have a couple |
| 0:40.5 | friends that are pharmacists and they are saying that like |
| 0:43.6 | literally all their job is now is basically prescribing these GLP1 |
| 0:47.2 | inhibitors which are these new weight loss medications. I don't know about the |
| 0:50.3 | pharmacist but you cannot go to a medical conference without hearing |
| 0:53.6 | several talks about these drugs right it seems like these drugs are |
| 0:56.8 | everywhere and I remember when I first heard about them I was like these are |
| 0:59.5 | either a godsend like a miracle magic pill key word for later on this episode or we don't know something |
| 1:08.3 | about them and we're all gonna be screwed in like 20 years or a sooner. So these drugs actually came out almost 20 years ago |
| 1:16.4 | but they really hit the market. It was like two years ago and I thought all right |
| 1:21.8 | maybe they do work, maybe they do work. |
| 1:23.3 | Maybe they really are a magic pill as we'll discuss. |
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