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

But I think that number is expected to rise stratospherically pretty quickly, especially with the expanded access and going to pill form.

And there's so much.

There's like a lot we don't know in adults.

There's so much we don't know about what it means to suppress appetite during these critical phases of growth and development.

At the same time, diet caused diseases like obesity and diabetes.

They hit young people particularly hard.

And there's some question with diabetes, for example, about interactions with growth hormone and insulin signaling because the disease comes on so ferociously and it's so hard to treat in young people.

So now we have this treatment or thing that can actually help young people in a way we couldn't accept with bariatric surgery before.

But what is it going to mean for them when we're, yes, blunting appetite, not only with the pressures on body image at that age, but also on your muscles, bones, puberty, all these things, right?

We're about to put all these young people on these drugs, right?

Like I think about my kids and the pressures that they're going to face.

I think about, I don't know if you've done this thought experiment, but imagine being like chubby 16-year-old Ezra now.

Would you have gone on one of these drugs at 16?

You know, I also, I think my weight fluctuated a lot, but I think around 17 or 18, I would have had obesity.

And would I have pushed my parents to say, you know, I really wanted GLP-1 and where would I be now?

Would I have had a happier childhood and teens and early 20s if I had one of these drugs?

Would I have learned to eat in the way that I've learned to eat by changing my food environment?

I don't know.

But the pressures I think young people are going to face now growing up

In the culture that we have, it's scary, it's punishing.

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