Jonquilyn Hill

If you have a client that's taking GLP-1s, what's something you want them to look out for?

I'm thinking, you know, emotionally and psychologically.

I have very mixed feelings about it.

There are patients I would recommend going on them for psychological reasons.

Sometimes people do need a break from that food noise.

It is so overwhelming.

You want to do a lot of prep work if they're ever planning on going off of them, because especially a person who's kind of frantic at the idea of that food noise, of those cravings, thinking something's wrong with them if they get them.

When you go off, that's going to be, you know, I don't know, two to four times more intense than prior to even going on them.

Right.

And what you'll find is then if they go off of them, they don't remember what they were like before.

And they go, oh, see, I was always like this.

And it can then reinforce this idea that there's something wrong with them.

So I think a lot of preparation about going off of them and what it's going to be like for you when your cravings return and what are you going to do if those actually feel quite intense and normalizing the fact that it's going to be intense so that they know to prepare for that.

One out of eight adults say they're taking these drugs, and that number's probably going to grow in the future.

You're seeing clients, and we're seeing more and more stories about people losing their spark on these drugs.

Do you worry that we're going to live in a society where like 80% of people have that sort of flat, beige, nothing feeling?

You know, could it get so normalized within society that it creates this large impact?

I'm not willing to be fearful of that.

I think it would find its place the way that we had a lot of fear that Prozac would do that to everybody.

And maybe it was overprescribed at a certain point.