Julia Belluz

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

Julia Belluz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

I was doing a thought experiment when I was working on that piece.

So when Prozac came on the market, that was another blockbuster drug.

That was another drug where we had a cultural moment around it, but we didn't have telemedicine.

So you still had to go to your doctor to get a prescription.

The internet wasn't in widespread use, so you couldn't order a research compound from China.

There was no social media to compare your personal experiences and share them with the world.

So, yeah, I think that we have all those things now when we have this elixir that we've wanted for so long, right?

The weight loss elixir.

So many people have wanted this.

We have it at the same time as we have all these other things that have just helped create, I think, the moment that we're in.

Well, I think it kind of goes together.

So we have, I think since the pandemic we've had, and maybe even it was brewing before the pandemic, but we've had this uptick in appreciation and interest in health and health optimization.

And then we have these technologies now to spread information about health optimization, podcasts in particular that are often sponsored by supplement makers.

They're mistrustful of authority.

And a lot of people, I think, were left quite cynical after the pandemic of public health and the medical establishment.

And now we have this vehicle, actually, that was helped also in the pandemic with telemedicine, where people can take their health in their own hands in a way that they haven't been able to before.

And then this idea that you can just do it yourself.

It feels like that's almost the currency today of social media.

Like, you know, you say there's this new study and this new, I found this new use for something and now I'm going to promote it on my feeds.

And it was always there, right?

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