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 personally think the government has a role in protecting public health and protecting consumers.
I think when people are being misled and using scarce resources on things that aren't going to help them, I think actually it is a problem.
But it's a very sensitive topic and a lot of people, especially in the American context, it's this idea that, you know, you have the right to do what you want with your body and to access the products that you want to access.
And I guess I have a more conservative view on that.
But a lot of people definitely disagree with me.
Absolutely, yeah.
If you know anything about the history of medicine, it's littered with examples like this.
And that's also why I always come at this much more conservatively.
But I think we're definitely in this big experiment now where these different things are colliding, right?
This interest in wellness and longevity and health optimization.
the availability of these drugs that seem to do everything, and then these over-the-counter variants that people are accessing and buying online or in the pharmacy.
It's a potential disaster waiting to happen.
Absolutely.
We live in food environments that are so gamed against making the right choices for most people, right?
So even if you are on the GLP-1, and I've talked to many of these people, they're not losing the amount of weight they want to lose because they have other barriers to eating the way or exercising the way they'd like to.
We've created these systems and food environments that make it literally impossible for most regular people to do the things that they know they need to be doing for their health.
And that's something that I would love more attention paid to by whoever's in power, like pulling more levers to help people.
prevent these diseases from the first place so that we don't have to do things like inject young people with drugs that we don't understand the long-term effects of.
And I'm not anti-GLP-1 at all.
I think they've been absolute game changers for so many people I've talked about, for friends and family.
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