Julia Belluz
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540 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
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So eye damage and those, I don't think we have clear answers on how common that is.
But the basis of those lawsuits is that people weren't properly warned that this could happen.
One thing that a lot of people don't seem to be warned about is the fact that you have to stay on them to keep reaping the weight loss benefits.
There's an idea that a lot of people have, I'll lose the weight, I'll learn how to eat properly and then I'll go off the drugs.
I'm always surprised that even people who got the drugs from their doctors don't seem to have... What happens when people go off the drugs?
You tend to regain the weight.
Exactly.
This appetite that was suppressed through acting on the brain, GLP-1 brain system, that effect is gone and you're back to the food noise.
You're back to the hunger that you had before.
But I think that this is the thing that goes back to the beginning of the conversation, that a lot of people still have this idea that they should just be able to will their way out of it, right?
I think these drugs helped reveal how much we are products of our physiology and that with this, you know, you take this drug and suddenly, again, you have the willpower you didn't have for your whole life.
But there's still this expectation.
It's like any other diet, right?
And that feels like a place where people haven't been warned.
But as we've been saying, there are now so many people on the drugs.
And I think these more rare side effects we're going to start to learn more about.
That's absolutely a strand in this conversation and in this moment that we're living in.
The place that it freaks me out the most is I talk to pediatricians who are prescribing the drugs in children.
There's no screening yet for these drugs and eating disorders in young people.
And they anecdotally have seen people use these as aids for essentially eating disorders and kind of exacerbating eating disordered behavior.
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