Julia Belluz

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540 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 8 May

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The Ezra Klein Show · GLP-1s and the ‘Wild West’ of Wellness · 8 May 2026 podcast

And this is where, at the beginning of the conversation, we talked about how we had a lot of research on these diabetes drugs over many years, and we could be fairly confident in their safety profile.

These drugs that have come on since, like manjaro, like trizepatide, and like raditrutride,

They're targeting more than just the GLP-1.

So they're targeting other hormone receptors.

And we don't have long-term data on these drugs.

And I think that's a really important thing that a lot of people overlook, right?

So this one is still under study, but in the research we have so far, it looks like it's causing faster and more dramatic weight loss.

And it's taken off in, I think, longevity and bodybuilding, social media.

Yeah, I'm not sure what the mechanism, but that could make sense that it's not just reducing appetite, it's also increasing metabolism.

And maybe that's why people lose even more weight more quickly.

But the point is, we have this emerging evidence that it might be even more effective than what's already available.

And I think it just speaks to the frenzy around these drugs that people don't want to wait for the FDA to get the randomized controlled trials to approve the drug.

They're going directly to illicit sources and trying to buy the drug, which is still a research compound.

I think it's more pervasive maybe, but I think we have to be careful.

So if you think about the American public, like most people aren't eating the minimum daily requirements of fruits and vegetables, let alone personalizing or optimizing their diet beyond that.

Most people aren't getting enough sleep.

Most people aren't getting enough physical activity.

And I think that's the majority, right?

Yeah, but then there is, I think, this minority that we pay a lot of attention to in the media that is interested in the longevity and the optimization.

So we always had the worried well, and people have always done really wild things to optimize their health.

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