Wait Less Weight Loss, Birth Control For Men, Seed Bombing

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about a new drug that could help you safely lose up to a fifth of your body weight, a new, non-hormonal birth control pill that is made for men, and how drones may hold the key to reforestation.

Weight loss five times faster.

“Diabetes drug helps patients lose never-before-seen amounts of weight, study shows” by Karen Weintraub
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/06/04/diabetes-drug-could-game-changer-obesity-new-study-shows/7490446001/
“Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity” by Ania M. Jastreboff, M.D., Ph.D., Louis J. Aronne, M.D., Nadia N. Ahmad, M.D., M.P.H., Sean Wharton, M.D., Pharm.D., Lisa Connery, M.D., Breno Alves, M.D., Arihiro Kiyosue, M.D., Ph.D., Shuyu Zhang, M.S., Bing Liu, Ph.D., Mathijs C. Bunck, M.D., Ph.D., and Adam Stefanski, M.D., Ph.D.
- https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206038?query=featured_home

Men entering the world of birth control.

“This birth control pill for men could begin human trials later this year” by Hannah Seo
- https://www.popsci.com/health/new-male-birth-control-pill/
“A non-hormonal pill could soon expand men’s birth control options” by The American Chemical Society
- https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2022/march/non-hormonal-pill-could-soon-expand-mens-birth-control-options.html
“Male Birth Control Pill Expected to Start Human Trials This Year” by corryn Wetzel
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/male-birth-control-pill-expected-to-start-human-trials-this-year-180979814/
“Contraceptive Use” by the CDC
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/contraceptive.htm

Seed bombing may not be what you think.

“Drones Are Setting Down Roots In Wildfire-Scarred Landscapes” by Ashley Franzen
- https://www.theverge.com/23022323/drones-wildfire-first-nation-british-columbia
“Aerial Planting: Bc First Nations Company Trialing Reforestation With Drones” by Maria Church
- https://www.woodbusiness.ca/aerial-planting-reforestation-drones/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.7	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate, and I'm Gi. If you're dropping in for the first time,
0:14.3	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.4	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a new drug that could help you safely lose up to a fifth of your body weight,
0:25.8	a new non-hormonal birth control pill that is made for men and how drones may hold the key to
0:31.1	reforestation.
0:32.3	Without further ado, let's satisfy some may hold the key to reforestation.
0:32.8	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:36.6	We've talked about maintaining a healthy lifestyle here before,
0:39.4	right, Nate?
0:40.0	Sure, things like getting enough exercise
0:42.0	and eating right are a great way to keep yourself feeling your best.
0:45.0	Oh, absolutely. But those who struggle with their weight and those with type 2 diabetes,
0:49.6	researchers just found something pretty incredible. What's that?
0:53.0	So it's called through Zeppitide.
0:55.0	It's an approved drug that doctors use to help treat type 2 diabetes patients.
0:59.0	Recently, researchers completed a 72 week study that looked into the drugs effects on weight loss and what they found was pretty remarkable.
1:06.5	With the help of the subjects who took the highest dose of the drug lost up to 21% of their body
1:24.3	mass. Even though the study was 72 weeks long some of the participants reached
1:28.4	this goal in just 10 months. Oh wow that's just over halfway through the study have we ever seen those kinds of results from any drug or treatment except surgery
1:37.6	Not at all there was another experimental drug last year called semi-glutide that averaged about 15% weight loss which is also
1:45.2	great but what the doctors are seeing with through Zepitide is quite revolutionary.
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