The Science and Supply of GLP-1s

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO of knownwell, joins Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they talk about the value of obesity medicine practitioners, patient-centric medical homes, and how Brooke believes the metabolic health space will evolve over time. This is the second episode in Raising Health’s series on the science and supply of GLP-1s. Listen to last week's episode to hear from Carolyn Jasik, Chief Medical Officer at Omada Health, on GLP-1s from a clinical perspective.

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0:00.0	People have no idea what's coming and how big of an innovation this is going to be.
0:07.0	One of my earliest experiences in health care was my pediatrician telling my mom that I should go to Fat Camp.
0:14.0	Specialist obesity training,
0:16.0	they're typically missing a few things.
0:19.0	The average one will have four hours
0:21.0	of training in obesity in medical school.
0:25.2	We're actually all users of G. L. P. 1s.
0:28.1	There we go.
0:29.0	So G.P. 1 is a hormone that we all have.
0:33.0	Obesity. We'll be able to one is a hormone that we all have. Obesity, a choice or a condition.
0:37.0	Well, regardless of what you believe,
0:40.0	this chronic disorder continues to impact millions of Americans, with nearly 70% of Americans fitting the description of overweight or affected by obesity.
0:50.0	And moreover, 55% have cancelled appointments due to the anxiety of being weighed, at least according to Nodwell.
0:58.0	Nogwell is a company trying to rethink obesity medicine and its founder and CEO Brooke Boyersky Platt joins
1:04.9	A16C General Partner Vanita Agrawala. Together they discuss what it'll really
1:10.0	take to change some of these statistics and how new technologies like
1:14.3	G. L. P. 1s fit into this mix. Brooke herself has personal experience in this
1:18.8	domain as a former patient with obesity having even been told by her pediatrician that she has to go to a
1:25.2	fat camp.
1:26.7	Now she's using that fuel to rethink obesity care herself.
1:31.0	Now this episode was also part of our sister podcast Raising Health's G.L.
1:35.0	1 series. And if you've been paying attention over the last year, G.L.P. 1s went from being an unassuming
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