Jonquilyn Hill

100 pounds overweight, and you're extremely upset about it, and you've given up all hope, I think GLP-1s can be not just this physical lifesaver, but this light at the end of a tunnel for you.

But then we can't talk about that person the same as the person who struggles with anorexia

who is abusing it because it's their dream drug, it makes them not think about food.

People with anorexia traditionally hate even thinking about food.

They hate feeling hungry.

It scares them.

So if you're already a hundred pounds, you hear that, oh, now I can take a pill that's gonna make me not think about food or feel hungry at all.

You know, to me, that's a huge problem.

So net positive, net negative, within society, probably equal.

Whereas I think there'd be a net positive in some populations and a very net negative in others.

You know, there are lots of physiological things we're still learning about weight gain and weight loss.

But the psychological impacts seem just as complex and difficult to manage.

They're really complicated.

Really complicated.

Because you think about...

Is obesity, do we as a society think of obesity as strictly metabolic or do we think of it as strictly psychological, right?

Like a binge eating disorder.

But what you're finding even with GLP-1s,

is that if there is a psychological component to it, that it's more emotional eating, stress, as opposed to in response to the sight or taste of food, it's not going to be as effective while on them.

And you're more likely to go back to the same behaviors right after going off of them.