Dhruv Khullar

Those were some of the hardest conversations I have ever had.

In recent months, I have returned again and again to something that Mary told me.

She said that GLP-1s enabled her to act not just on her immediate desire to stop drinking, but on her deeper desire to reinvent the person she wanted to be, to change her habits, her relationships, even how she saw herself.

She gained a kind of freedom to live alongside her desires instead of being ruled by them.

Because alcohol was no longer an issue, she told me, I finally had the chance to think, what type of life do I want?

And that is a question that every person deserves a chance to ask.

Thank you.

No, she wasn't my patient.

She was someone that I had met through a clinical trial researcher.

And she was a patient who was enrolled in one of his trials.

That's right.

You know, in Mary's case, she also experienced pretty significant reduction in her appetite.

And so there were days where she was eating, you know, three, four, five hundred calories a day.

And she lost 55 pounds in just five months.

And she ended up having to come off the medication because she lost so much weight so quickly.

But

she was able to maintain her sobriety afterwards.

So even after she came off the medication, really, she's had a much healthier relationship with alcohol and she's maintained her lower weight and she's maintained her healthier lifestyle.

For her, it's been a really positive experience.

Well, I think you have to think back about the history of Ozempic.