{"id":220481,"date":"2025-06-28T05:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T05:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220481\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T05:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T05:12:27","slug":"how-do-glp-1-drugs-override-our-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220481\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do GLP-1 Drugs Override Our Biology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/glp-1-drugs.jpg\" alt=\"Ozempic and Wegovy pens wrapped in a pink tape measure on white background\" width=\"1400\" height=\"885\"  \/>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/valparaiso-usa-january-15-2025-ozempic-2572052309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GLP-1 medications like Ozempic have dominated headlines over the past couple of years. When writing his new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/18570\/9781915780560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diet, Drugs and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight<\/a>, former FDA commissioner David Kessler wanted to unpack the science beyond those headlines. He also has a personal relationship with the subject, having taken GLP-1 medications himself. Host Flora Lichtman joins Kessler to talk about the latest science on metabolism, weight loss, and how these new blockbuster drugs actually work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/articles\/diet-drugs-dopamine-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read an excerpt of Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up For The Week In Science Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with the week\u2019s essential science news headlines, plus stories that offer extra joy and awe.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn border\" style=\"padding: 12px 28px; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/3p50t_qhE0W_H-H634sDrg2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tDonate To Science Friday<\/p>\n<p>Invest in quality science journalism by making a donation to Science Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<a class=\"btn border no-ajaxy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/donate-form\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donate<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Shutterstock GLP-1 medications like Ozempic have dominated headlines over the past couple of years. When writing his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759280025959161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}