GLP-1 agonists: Weight loss wonder-drugs, or disaster in the making?

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GLP-1 agonists: Weight loss wonder-drugs, or disaster in the making? - podcast

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Robyn Chuter

Mar 16, 2024

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GLP-1 agonists: Weight loss wonder-drugs, or disaster in the making?

Robyn Chuter

Mar 16

GLP-1 agonists: Weight loss wonder-drugs, or disaster in the making?

A couple of months ago, I caught up with a cousin whom I hadn’t seen for several decades. I knew from conversations with other family members that she had been struggling with her weight since her 30s, and that she, like many other first and second degree relatives on both sides of my family, had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. But I was still unprepared for just how much larger she was than the last time I saw her, which just happened to be her wedding day.

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