How Ozempic and Similar Weight Loss Drugs Really Work & The Story of Money
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Can visualizing a skill actually improve real‑world performance?
Today on Something You Should Know, if you imagine yourself doing something, can it make you better at actually doing it? Then the latest on Ozempic and other weight loss drugs, how they work and their interesting side effects.
One woman I spoke to said that she loved eating takeout. Another guy I spoke to loved Diet Coke. And when they were on these drugs, they had no interest in those types of foods. They wanted salmon and vegetables, and they'd go to grocery stores and they would spend most of their money on fresh food.
Also, effective ways to keep warm when you're in the cold. And the fascinating history of money and why it's often a difficult subject.
It is because money affects us in a different part of our psyche to logic. Take a price of something. Economists, when they see a price, they see a number. When real people, normal people see a price, we get a feeling.
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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, something you should know with Mike Carruthers.
So here's a question that you've probably heard discussed and maybe even thought about yourself. And the question is: can imagining yourself performing a skill actually make you better at performing that skill in real life? That's the question we're starting with today on this episode of Something You Should Know. Hi, and welcome. I'm Mike Carruthers. The short answer to that question is yes. Imagining yourself performing a skill can make you better at it. In the 1930s, researchers demonstrated that when you're imagining an action, your brain sends signals to your muscles, subtle little triggers that are too weak to make the muscle contract, but ones that might help train the body to perform. Alternately, mental practice may create a blueprint in your head.
like an inner how-to guide for a particular skill. Sports psychologists have conducted hundreds of studies comparing imagined and physical practice for things like throwing darts and juggling and tap dancing. And overall, the research shows that mental training works. There does seem to be one big caution about this whole thing, though. It doesn't work for novices. If you rehearse in your head how to shoot a free throw, But you have no experience doing it, you will likely rehearse it all wrong and that will actually make you worse at it if you actually try to do it. And that is something you should know. This episode is publishing right around the start of the new year, which is a time when a lot of people are thinking about losing weight.
And by now I'm sure you've heard all the same discouraging messages that dieting doesn't work, weight loss is hard, and even when people do succeed, the weight often comes back later. Losing weight on your own can be an uphill battle. Now some people do succeed, but many don't. And now there's something new in the mix. These weight loss drugs like Ozempic. They don't work for everyone, but for a lot of people, they really do work, and the success stories are hard to ignore.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Can visualizing a skill actually improve real‑world performance?
0:02–13:13
2
What are the basic science and mechanisms behind Ozempic and other GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs?
13:13–23:20
3
How effective are these drugs for different people and what are the common side‑effects?
23:20–45:04
4
What happens when someone stops taking Ozempic – do they regain weight or keep new habits?
45:04–47:03
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