When I got Sarah's hang on the line, I asked her to tell me the story of Victoria Rutledge.

Yeah, so Victoria is someone who has always thought of herself as someone with an addictive personality.

Sarah covers science and medicine for the Atlantic.

You know, the example she gave me is that she had been addicted to alcohol when she was younger and she had gotten sober,

but sort of had kind of replaced her addiction to alcohol, with food and shopping.

Like she told me that she would spend something like $500 on groceries every two weeks.

Victoria would buy so much food that it would rot in her fridge.

If she went to Target to run an errand, she'd find herself compulsively buying one thing after another unable to stop.

Just like start throwing candles or like makeup or skincare into her car even though she didn't really need it,

but she just, she saw it. She just like really needed to do that.

Then a few months ago, Victoria started taking semi-glutide for weight loss.

That's the medication sold under the brand name's ozempic and wigovi.

There's also minjaro, which is slightly different, but has similar effects.

When Victoria went on semi-glutide, she lost weight.

But something else started to happen, something she noticed on one of those errand runs.

She just walked out of Target one day. She told me and she realized,

oh hey, like my cart, like I didn't buy anything I didn't need to.

I only got the things I wanted, like what's going on?

So it's almost like a switch had flipped in her brain where she was no longer addicted to shopping

and she realized, oh of course she hadn't been buying all this food either.

But just like this kind of like addictive, compulsive habits that she had had her entire life had kind of gone away.

Today on the show, Kudosempic and the drugs like it actually help fight addiction.

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