Lisa Miller

Yeah, it's a revolution in how we look.

It's a revolution in our health.

It's got gigantic potential to help people who have not been able to be helped before.

The data show that one in eight Americans has tried one of these drugs.

Like, I have a friend who takes the medicine, and he says...

You know, if you are able to eat just five French fries and you used to not be able to eat just five French fries, it gives you grounding in the idea that you can control things in your life that you didn't think you could control.

So what else can you control?

Can you control...

the way you relate to your children, the way you talk to your boss.

And what really interested me was this question of how the GLP-1 drugs affected a marriage, especially when one partner is on the drugs and the other partner isn't.

Well, we at The Times have a thing called a call-out where you ask the public a question.

And then we get responses to that question.

And the question was this.

Has a GLP-1 drug like Ozempic and subsequent weight loss changed your relationship?

And I was getting all of these responses.

And one jumped out at me.

He wrote,

And I thought, there's a lot between the lines here.

And so I called them up, and they agreed to participate in the story as long as I used their middle names.

Javier.