Julia Belluz
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540 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
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I had a feeling that
A lot of the headlines in the media had been quite triumphalist about these wonder drugs, but we weren't reporting what the lived experiences of people on these drugs was really like with the side effects and cycling in and out of insurance.
And what we got back was people kind of generally feeling great and having benefits that they didn't expect and that they wanted to stay on the drug for reasons other than which the drugs were prescribed.
No, this shocked me.
I did not expect this.
One of the most amazing stories to me is the woman who had post-concussion syndrome for almost a decade, whose life was essentially, I don't want to say shut down, but it was.
She was suffering deeply.
with symptoms and she started to find mice and cell research suggesting these drugs could benefit post-concussion syndrome.
So she talked to her doctor, she got the prescription and she tries it and within days she starts to experience benefit and now she's back to her normal life.
But the big key is we haven't done a randomized control trial on this.
We don't have the high quality evidence to say, is this going to be everyone with post-concussion syndrome?
80% of people are like 2%.
We don't know.
In addition, we don't understand how these drugs interact.
For example, if you were on, God forbid, but some other type of like a cancer therapeutic or something like this, we don't know.
How does this fine tuning of the immune system I talked about work when you're taking an immunotherapy, for example?
There are so many unknowns and researchers are always going to be cautious.
But I ask almost all the researchers I talk to this question and they all say we're not at that stage where we should just all be on this.
Absolutely.
But I think the question I was answering earlier was this, should it be in the drinking water?
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