Weight loss drugs - are the new blockbuster medicines really a solution for obesity?

Saving Lives In Slow Motion

This is a super hot topic in health care in some parts of the world at the moment. In this episode I look at how these drugs work and the pros and cons of taking them for weight loss purposes.

Obesity, in some instances, is in essence a form of ‘malnutrition’ because of the nature of food consumed and how rates have increased rapidly over the last 40 years.

Body Mass Index definition: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-21264134

Heart disease risk reduced by weight loss jab: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd188m73vn1o

Ultra processed food and your brain:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/junk_food_brain

Supersize Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me

Obesity health risks: https://www.healthline.com/health/obesity/how-obesity-affects-body

The genetics of obesity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-021-00414-z

The story behind semaglutide: https://www.vox.com/22553793/gila-monster-lizard-venom-inspired-obesity-drug-semaglutide

Weight loss stats on semaglutide: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9486455/

Semaglutide can stop working and even if it works it may need to be taken forever:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-weight-loss-drugs-stop-working-how-to-break-past-ozempic-plateau#Hitting-a-weight-loss-plateau-after-a-year

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