Dr. Rachel Bedard

Which doesn't quite answer your peptides question, but I kind of see all of like the peptides, the GLP-1s, the cosmetic procedure stuff.

It's like all part of a thing of like, I don't feel the way I want to feel in my body.

I don't look the way that I want to look in my body, et cetera, et cetera.

I'm going to seek medical intervention to help me become the thing that I want to become.

I have really complicated reactions to it, but I don't yet have a definitive opinion about it.

I'm really trying to think it through.

Yeah.

I think it's the second one.

So I think that we have, in a weird way, medicalized a lot of the experience of being, like, in the human life cycle, you know?

And that's complicated.

You know, and again, like, these are all sort of questions and discourse topics, etc.

So they're so far afield from my medical practice and my patients' lives and my patients' bodies.

And...

They're so far afield from sort of what are the things that sick people actually live with, what are the things that actually kill people, et cetera, et cetera.

So with this sort of large caveat that all of my initial anxieties about the GLP-1 discourse apply to this other sort of wider discourse around other interventions that are for self-fulfillment but are sort of being medicalized, I'm trying to be like a little bit thoughtful before I just sort of react to them as a knee-jerk moral panic around those.

Yeah, I'm like really working through it.

Thank you.

My pleasure.

Thank you for having me.