Dr. Trisha Pasricha

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Science Friday · How does the gut-brain connection work? · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

that seemingly don't have much to do with weight loss.

And I think that those other effects, for example, in my lab, we found that taking a GLP-1 medication, it's associated with a decreased risk of getting ulcers, of having damage to the mucosal lining of your stomach.

doesn't have anything to do really with weight loss.

And we're, you know, these big studies have come out about how GLP-1 medications are associated with a decreased risk of 13 different cancers, not related to weight loss per se.

And it's exciting.

And I keep saying that word associated with, and these studies are very exciting.

We don't know the mechanism quite yet, and we haven't nailed some of that down.

So I'm incredibly optimistic about them.

I'm a realist that

We'd like to help people in ways that don't involve medication.

I am so on board with this medication because it will help so many people though.

And I think though that my pause is just, and we're working on this, is we need to understand in a lot more detail than we have right now what it's doing exactly molecularly and why some of these benefits happen.

I think GLP-1 is just like a lot of

For example, neurotransmitters and the history of medicine.

Dopamine is a great example.

What we know they do in the brain is not what they do in the gut.

And they act very differently.

Estrogen, like all of these things behave very differently in different organs, in different types of environment.

And so it's a lot to unpack.

What would you add to that?

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