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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Like, how are you going to do all the things that you know you need to be doing to protect your health and to fight against this neurobiology that you might have?
Right, absolutely.
And you're designed to eat more when you don't sleep enough.
And you're absolutely right that this symphony of internal signals that I was referring to earlier, it's interplaying with our environment.
I think the big common thread for people in whom the drugs are effective for weight loss is this idea that suddenly this willpower that they were always searching for, that they feel they didn't have enough of, suddenly they have it.
Suddenly it's not that hard to say no to the extra piece of cake or the cake altogether.
They're eating smaller portions.
Their cravings change.
Like there's a lot of discussion about food noise.
So that's this, when the cake is there, 30 to 50% of your brain is on the cake or you have cravings that distract you.
A lot of people say that this just disappears.
So this is another area we don't fully understand, but it seems like there are some people who are quite sensitive to the drugs and others who are insensitive to the drugs.
And there might be a genetic component to this too.
That's sort of a frontier area of science.
And so I think the quest that a lot of the companies are on is to understand, like, how do we differentiate the people who might need higher doses initially or much lower doses because they're having so much sensitivity to the drugs and side effects and whatnot.
They're having such a strong response or losing weight too fast.
So there absolutely is this variation in how people are responding.
So the most common that we know of right now are the gastrointestinal side effects, so the nausea, the vomiting, the diarrhea.
Those are the most common, but it seems like there's other emerging potential problems.
So there are lawsuits around severe stomach problems, damage to the ocular nerve.
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