Julia Belluz
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540 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
But yeah, no.
But this question of should you, Ezra, as an individual with your particular family history and your underlying disease risk profile or whatever you've struggled with already, should you be on the drug?
That's a conversation people and you should certainly have with your doctor, right?
and get the prescription and have someone monitor you.
What scares me about this GLP-1 era is how many people are circumventing the medical system.
They're getting these very low barrier prescriptions through telemedicine.
They're going to like elicit research chemicals through people like influencers on TikTok.
There's so much enthusiasm.
And
I've seen this happen with other drugs.
It's like, it seems to do everything and then we dial it back.
We're not quite there yet that we can just say, put it in the drinking water.
Interesting.
Almost sounds like an antidepressant experience.
Yeah, so this has been a very exciting area and one that we've paid a lot of attention to, I think, in particular in the media because the anecdotes are so startling and I think they're real.
I've talked to people who have reported like reversals of alcoholism, the desire to smoke, sex addiction, like any kind of addictive behavior you can imagine seem to be dialed down with these drugs.
The trials to date have been mixed.
And the researchers who study reward are quite cynical that these results are going to endure.
And the way it's been described to me is, so for a long time, we know that if you make rodents hungry, they're more likely to have addictive behaviors, like they're more likely to get hooked on cocaine or push the lever in a...
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