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  1. “Because it's the right thing to do And if you said to me, Why should human beings continue to exist? I could give you a load of abstract answers. I could talk to you about philosophy and I could talk to you about art. And I'd just say, come and meet Robin Paul. Why humans should continue to exist? Cheers”

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  2. “And a few days later I said to Rob What did she mean when she said you don't want to go there? And he said, Oh, it's just these guys. And I said, what guys? He said, oh, well, they're the guys who hit me in the head with an axe. They're the guys who tried to kill me. And I said, Well, why did you go and help them? And he said'Cause they're human beings, and they're suffering and they need help I thought a lot about Rob. Every day him and Paul Back into those tunnels, you know, they could do anything, they could leave and do a million things, right? They're incredibly intelligent and talented people. Every day they go back and they help the people who got left behind and they make no money doing it and they don't have great lives doing it in any material sense. And I say to them, why do you do it? And they just.”

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  3. “When he got word that a friend of his from the tunnels called Pickett had died, he'd OD'd in the tunnel they used to live in. So we went straight down there and Pickett stuff was still there. They'd taken away his body. We bumped into a woman who also lives down there. And whenever Rob goes to the tunnels, even in a situation like that, he always brings supplies, you know, food and stuff. And he said to her, Who's in the tunnel over there? And she said, Oh, you don't want to go there. And he said, Why? And she named some people. And he said, no, I'll go there. I'll give them some stuff. And he went and gave them some stuff. Anyway, I didn't really think about it very much. I was thinking about Pickett and what had happened.”

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  4. “Turned his life around, and he began to volunteer for a group that my friend Paul runs called Shine a Light, which is a group of people overwhelmingly people who used to live in the tunnels who managed to get out, turn their lives around, who now help the people who are still down there. They give them loads of practical things from tampons to flashlights, and they most importantly give them support when they want to leave and have got lots of people out and every month get people out of the tunnels. And I've seen them do it with some people I really love who are down there. And one day Few years ago I was with Rob and So one day, a few years ago, I was with Rob.”

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  5. “So I know two people call Rob Banghart and Paul Bautrinau, who a lot of people won't know, but there's many thousands of homeless people who live in the drainage tunnels beneath Las Vegas. And Rob and Paul used to live in the tunnels. Can Rob lived in a particular set of tunnels that I know very well and have spent a lot of time in? And in twenty seventeen, So Rob was known as Hobo Santa. He would steal things and give them to people. And he was also kind of low-level dealer, very low level. And there was a group of rival Cuban. And one day in 2017, they hit him in the head with an axe, split his skull open, dragged him onto the railway tracks, and left him there for a train to run him over. But fortunately someone spotted him, pulled him off the tracks and he survived, and he, in the next six months as he recovered,”

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  6. “Every time I see you Where's the book Johan? There are people, many people in Vegas who said to me, yeah, your book's been a long time fucking coming”

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  7. “So, as you know, I've been writing for God 12 years now, 13 years a book about a series of crimes that have been happening in Las Vegas. I'm not allowed to talk about, but it will come out next year, and I promise we'll finally talk about it. I think you're just”

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  8. “Bought it, that wouldn't have happened. In practice, for me personally, Was worried about my own heart risk, you know. I'm a year older than my granddad was when he died. But that's not much of an excuse. And when I met the diabetics in that position, like, for example, a guy called Zami Jalil, who was exactly in that position, is a musician 41, couldn't get them pick he needed for his diabetes, for his type 2 diabetes. I felt ashamed, you know, clearly his need was greater”

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  9. “Think those people have a really good point, and I interviewed some of them for the book, and it was a very painful conversation. I think the solution is what we should have done right from the start and what we should do now is what we did in Britain with the COVID vaccine. So we should ration the drug and the people with the greatest need should be given it first. And everyone agrees. Severely obese people and diabetics together would be the people who most need the drug and they should be given it first. People like me who've got heart disease in my family but were not hugely obese would probably be around the middle. And, you know, people who don't have heart disease and are just sort of overweight would be at the bottom. We didn't have that system. What we had, unfortunately, because the government didn't set up that system was a scramble, which meant that, you know, some diabetics didn't get the drug they needed, had to go on insulin earlier, which poses a real threat to their health. That's awful. And I feel a bit ashamed about it because, of course, if people like me hadn't all together...”

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  10. “Or your body fat percentage is very, very high. You're not someone with thyroid cancer in your family, and you're not trying to get pregnant I would recommend taking the drugs. I think for you, the balance of risk And assuming you've tried diet and it didn't work, I think for you, the balance of risk is more towards the benefits of taking the drug. I'm not as confident about that, but the people I love who I be on my higher than 35, who are in that position, I have recommended the drug to them. For people with a BMI between 27 and 35, I think it's much more you've got to just go down the list of the benefits and drawbacks and really think it through for yourself and reasonable people will reach completely different conclusions.”

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  11. “If you are not overweight or obese, you definitely shouldn't take these drugs, right? You are incurring all the risks for none of the benefits. So that I'm certain of. And there are lots of people who are not overweight or obese who are taking the drugs to be super thin. My friend Elise Lonin, who used to be the chief content officer at Goop, said she won't even go out for dinner in LA with people we know now because no one eats anything. She's like, why did we come out for dinner? You're all starving. She says, you know, dieting is out. Elimination is in the way she put it. So I'm confident about that. I'm also fairly confident, although slightly less, but fairly confident, if your BMI is higher than 35,”

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  12. “Yeah, so we know that there are enormous benefits to exercise which exist quite separate to the question of weight loss, right? If you exercise for 270 hours a year, you add three years onto your life, even if it doesn't cause weight loss, right? So it benefits in terms of preventing disease, slowing down aging, mental health are just enormous from exercise. And I think you've gone to a really important drawback, which is, yeah, if you can get the benefit in the short to medium term just from a jab. That calculation you were thinking?”

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  13. “And train something else. Or the third way is think about almost every fable about magic is you get what you want. But then you get what you want in a way you didn't quite expect. You make a wish with the genie and you get what you want, but the wish doesn't quite work out how you thought most famous story about magic is Fantasia. You know, the magic can spiral away from you. So I think one of the things we're still trying to figure out is what kind of magic is this? Is it a magic solution? Is it a magic trick? Or is it a magic solution that's going to spiral in all sorts of unpredictable directions? I have to say, you know, when you were holding that pen, I got weird, like, you were doing slightly judgmental dragon's den eyes. And I was like, shit, how do I persuade him to invest in me?”

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  14. “Whatever the other arguments are, I don't want to argue against them, right? If you are taking these drugs and experiencing an enormous improvement in your health, as they both have, and as lots of other people have, then that's been the right choice for you. Now, that won't be right for everyone. I met people who really regretted taking the drugs for all sorts of reasons, including many of the terrible side effects and risks. But I think we have to be truthful to the complexity of these drugs, right? I mean, one of the reasons it's called Magic Pill, the book, is because there's three different ways you could think about this as magic loads of people who take the drug go, this is magic, right? So the first form of magic is obvious. It seems to solve the problem so quickly, so effectively that you're like, whoa, it's like a miracle, right? That's one way. The second way is it could be magic, like a conjure resolution, right? It could be like a magic trick. It seems to solve the problem, but doesn't or set.”

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  15. “And exercise options that were available, and they'd always yo-yoed back for the reasons that we talked about before. And, you know, and she had to have a knee operation. I'm not giving away anything. She's disclosed this. She had to have a knee operation. And she was very worried about her health. And so for those reasons, she's made this choice. There are lots of reasons to be worried about these drugs, but I have found it very hard to When you talk to people who've really struggled with this, like that guy Jeff Parker I mentioned before in San Francisco, like Oprah, people who've made the decision to do it and seen the benefits of the weight loss, staggering benefits.”

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  16. “Yeah, she talks about it very movingly. She's talked about an interview with People magazine and in a brilliant special for ABC, I think. I mean, nobody has publicly tortured themselves with diets more than Oprah. There's this famous clip that you've probably seen where she comes on stage on her show and she's wheeling a huge bucket of fat. And that's the amount of fat she'd lost on this diet. And she describes very movingly in the special. She says it much better than I can how she had starved herself to get that, right? And you think about, so she had tried all the extreme”

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  17. “Yeah, so everyone starts at 0.25 milligrams, partly because the most common side effect by far is nausea, right? Almost everyone feels nauseous a bit when they start taking it. For some people, the nausea is unbearable. I interviewed someone called Sonny Newton in Vermont who said, you know, it felt like an alien had entered her body and was thrashing and trying to get out. Yeah, a significant minority experienced such extreme nausea. They just have to stop. For me, the nausea has now totally gone away. And Corell LaRue, one of the scientists who worked on this, said, look, when it comes to nausea, you've got to level with people. There are two kinds of drugs. There are drugs that have side effects and there are drugs that don't work, right? And he's right about that. But yeah, the nausea is pretty bad. But for me, it's all gone away now.”

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  18. “Lost a huge amount of weight, so I lost three stone across a year. And actually, it was even more dramatic was the percentage of body fat that I lost. So at the start, I was 33% body fat. I remember the day Josh, my trainer, measured that. And it sort of looked sort of winced as he saw it. And I said, oh, God, if I was a sandwich, you wouldn't want to eat me. I later looked up whales that only 35% body fat. So it started disconcerting. So I went from 33% body fat to 22% body fat. So it was a really dramatic fall.”

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  19. “Of the overselling of drugs generally, we want to be careful about it, but it's possible scenario. And the animal research is mind-blowing and really is highly, highly exciting. And you don't normally see this, right? There's no other drug that I'm aware of. I'm pretty sure there isn't that just reduces addiction across the board in animal studies, right? It is remarkable. I mean, there's a debate about whether you can even call it addiction in animals, but you know what I mean? Heavy compulsive use.”

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  20. “Obsessive eating. She goes on as MPIC and all these addictions disappeared. So there's now this debate, okay, is it going to have this effect more widely? The only research is kind of mixed. So there's only very, very small studies on humans so far. It found that it does reduce smoking, but only if you pair it with a nicotine patch. They found that it does reduce alcohol consumption, but only if you were a heavy drinker at the start. So we're going to know a lot more, we're going to get a lot of results actually this year and definitely a lot next year. But it's a very promising thing. So some people argue, so the most extreme, I want to stress this is speculative. The biggest cheerleaders for the drug would say, actually, we haven't found a drug that causes appetite regulation. What we found is a drug that boosts self-control across the board, right? Now, that's very contested. I'm always conscious, you know.”

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  21. “Point. It seems to be activating downgrading your desire for things that are bad for you but not things that are good for you, right? And I'm thinking, how can that be? That seems so weird. Let's imagine I Melton John, right? And I get my pleasure from playing music. How can it know to tell me to eat fewer jam sandwiches but not to engage in jamming, right? How can it do that? And they kept saying we don't know. There does seem to be a mechanism that does that. We're trying to explore it. Obviously hugely encouraging results in animal studies with addiction. So now there's lots of experiments going on with giving these drugs to humans to see if they reduce addiction there. There's been a huge amount of anecdotal evidence HVIDA nurse in Canada called Tracy who had a bad relationship breakup and just became completely addicted to shopping. She would just obsessively buy books she'd never read, clothes she'd never wear. She was doing a lot of skin picking.”

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  22. “Heroin and fentanyl gives them a GLP agonist, again finds the same thing. 50% reduction in the rats using the self-administering the heroin and the fentanyl. Then Greg Stanward, who I mentioned before, who's at Florida State University, does it with cocaine. It was mice, not rats for him. Again, 50% reduction in them using cocaine. We don't know why. Again, some of the theories come back to that question about the reward system. Could it be dampening the reward system? One of the things a lot of the scientists find fascinating is these drugs appear to have what they call seal activity. So seal activity is where the drug makes you want less of the Big Mac, but not less of a salad, right? So it seems to it doesn't just generally dampen, you don't just not eat at all. Some people do with malnutrition is a risk, but most people don't. Right. So given that, some of them argue, again, it's highly speculative at this time.”

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  23. “Get a load of rats and they put them in a cage and they give them loads of alcohol. And rats will like alcohol and they get hammered like the rest of us and they wobble about and they love it, right? So they put them in this cage for a while. They've got plenty of alcohol. They get drunk over many weeks. And then once it starts to resemble like a dive bar in Vegas, they do an intervention. They come along and they inject them with GLP1 agonist, the exact drug you've got in front of you, some aglotide, and then they watch. And what they discovered, what Professor Yal Hagen, her colleagues discovered, is afterwards the rats drink about 60% less than they did before and the rats who drank most heavily are the ones who cut back on their drinking the most. Like, why? What's going on there? But then they thought, okay, maybe it's because alcohol's got a caloric content. It's like they want the calories less, right? So then there were experiments done with drugs that don't contain any calories. So Professor Patricia Grigson, who's at Penn State University, gets rats heavily using”

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  24. “So, this is much disputed, and there are serious scientists on both sides, but I found it mind-blowing and totally fascinating. So, for example, Women called Elizabeth Yelhag, who is a professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, has done some of the pioneering work on this, interviewed her a lot.”

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  25. “I do think we always have to try to understand, and it comes from a place of profound pain, and that's not a pain that those people deserved, right? And that's a pain they should never have been subjected to”

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  26. “So I do think we have to understand where it's coming from and not just sort of, I know you're not doing this, you're always interested in understanding where people come from. But it's tempting to just condemn people and go, look at this bad behavior. And I'm always more interested when people are behaving badly. And it is cruel to say to Adele, you bitch, you betray us. I mean, I would never say anything bad to Adele anyway because I love Adele. I saw her in Vegas. She's incredible.”

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  27. “You fucker, right? I totally get it. I suspect I would have felt that anger were I not me looking at me, right? So I get where the anger ends comes from. From the moment we're born. In this culture we are primed to be overweight and we are primed to feel tremendous amounts of shame about being overweight, right? And anything that comes along and brings up those stories and forces us to think to them brings them to the surface like these new weight loss drugs. just leeches out of all of us so many negative and angry and hurt feelings and I felt it myself right I felt so much self-doubt all the way through this I still feel self-doubt about it I still have days where I wonder am I doing completely the wrong thing”

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  28. “Got to understand where that's coming from. Obviously, I don't support anyone being cruel to people online and it's good for both Adele and Rebel Wilson that they've improved their health. But I think where it comes from, and a lot of these things that can seem a little bit odd that are kind of said, we've got to realize how much shame people are soaking up on this issue. If you have a BMI higher than 35 and you're a woman, 45% of women in that position get insulted every single day in public, every day, right? So you're walking through the world, constantly being made to feel there's something wrong with you, being treated like shit. And I can see how people in that position develop a sort of parasocial relationship with Rebel Wilson or Adele are like, oh, look, we can look to Adele and they feel trapped. They feel they can't lose weight and then they see Adele and Rebel Wilson. And they're just like, oh, at two, Brute, fuck you. You know, I get it. Now, it's not the right response. I would want to talk to them more about, okay, we want to think deeper about this, but I can see where it comes from. And I can see why some people look at me and go.”

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  29. “And weight has become so toxic so quickly. But again, we don't have to do that. The toxicity isn't going to get us out of this, right? We're in a shared crisis. Everyone watching has someone they love who is on course to die young because of the problems associated with obesity because obesity is so widespread in this society in a very recent amount of time. Look at a picture of a beach in Britain in 1975, not a million years ago. Everyone is thin by our standards, right? This happened in the blink of an eye in human terms, right? Again, we don't have to tolerate that.”

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  30. “And then they hear this fucker just injects himself once a week, and he gets to be thin like me. It's like they feel the way I imagine cyclists do when they look at Lance Armstrong, right? And the only way out of that negative conversation where we turn on each other like rats in a sack is to realize, oh, there is a sin and there are people who are cheating, but it's not Oprah. It's not someone Jeff Parker, that guy I mentioned, who didn't want to die young. It's the food industry that fucked all of us. That's why we're in that race, right? That's why you're starving yourself. That's why we feel we're sinners. Okay, well, we can collectively come together and challenge that shared opponent if we want. But if we're just going to get into look, it's very hard in this age of social media madness to not have every conversation turn into a toxic conversation. And it's not surprising that something is charged as a debate about Azempic.”

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  31. “Ones where people are humiliated and suffer terribly. You starve yourself, you know, think about that show, The Biggest Loser, which I hate, you know, where severely obese people are made to sort of compete in grueling, horrific forms of exercise. Then we're like, okay, Jabber, we forgive you now. Do you know what I mean? We use this kind of stigmatizing ways of thinking. Cheating is a bit more subtle. Because I kept thinking, I'm cheating as I do this. And I was like, well, that's really weird. If I had a heart problem and I took statins, I would not think I was cheating, right? I was like, why is that? And I think it's partly, so people put in a huge amount of effort to be thin, right? Loads of women watching this, and it's disproportionately women will suffer some privation and deprivation in their life because they are really trying to be thin.”

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  32. “Collective unconscious. If you look at, so for example, in the 6th century, the Pope, Pope Gregory I, draws up the seven deadly sins, right? And one of them is gluttony. And it's this image. It's always depicted with an image of some hugely fat person looking like a pig, you know, and it's horrible. It's very deep in our culture, the idea that being obese is a sin, right? If you look at the forms of weight loss we admire, they follow the pattern of sin, right? The kind of classic Catholic pattern of sin. You sin, then you have to suffer and redeem yourself and then we forgive you, right? So if you look at the forms of weight loss we admire”

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  33. “know I was saying why has no one else written a book about Ozempic yet why am I the only one and they said because only a man could write this because a woman would be crucified for writing it right she would be monstered and if you look whenever even someone as unbelievably popular and amazing as Oprah who slightly surreal is my friend gets savaged for it right and there's lots of deep underlying reasons for that that came out for me as well actually that I projected towards myself I remember for a long time taking the drug I felt like I mentioned this a little bit before, but I felt like I was cheating. I felt like I was sinning almost. And I started to look at the kind of deep ideas so deep in our kind of”

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  34. “Yes, although I think I would say the people you and I are thinking about are almost all women. And I do think we should bear in mind that you would agree with this. I'm not making this a point against you. Women get so much more shit than men for this sort of thing, right? Like, actually, it was interesting. One of my editors said to me,”

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  35. “Don't be judged by how you lurk, don't worry about that, you know. And I thought, oh, I've counteracted everything I wanted to communicate. And we know, and she decided not to take it, and if fine with her, but when I was a kid, there were no fat people on television except as the butt of the joke. And I think about my niece, she's grown up seeing actually quite a lot of women who have a broader range of body shapes in the public eye. And in the last two years, almost all of those women have massively shrunk. Now, they're not talking about Azempic, but unless there's been some kind of outbreak of dysentery in Malibu, I think we know what's happening, right? Some of them are talking about it, but most are not.”

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  36. “A moment when I've got a niece called Eren and she's 18 now, although she's 19 actually, but in my head she's sort of six years old all the time because she's the baby of my family. She's the only girl. She was the youngest. So no one makes me more protective. And one day, a few months into taking these drugs, I was FaceTiming with her. She was in a pub in Liverpool. And she was like, Oh, Johan, you've lost so much weight. And I was like preening. She's like, Oh, look, I can see your jaw. I never knew you had a draw. And I was like, oh, yeah, I was thinking you're happy. And then She looked down, and she said in a You get me some Mozambic, she's a perfectly healthy weight, she always has been. And I thought what the fuck am I doing? All her life I've been trying to give her this message, and”

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  37. “She got hold of these diet drugs, massively starved herself, and died of a heart attack, and he read out this heartbreaking poem as she describes like, you know, I'm hungry. I want to eat, but not yet, not yet, right? So we know that when a diet drug combines with eating disorders, it leads to catastrophic outcomes. We don't have to speculate. So yeah, that's one of my three or four biggest concerns. Now, like I say, we can introduce regulation now to mean you only get it from a doctor. The doctor has to see you. That will cut some of that. But I don't see how, and that's really important. And anyone we save is worth saving. But yeah, I'm very, very concerned about that. I'm also concerned about a more subtle effect in relation to that. So the worst moment I had in writing the book was not any of the physical side effects for me, although there were some grim moments there early on.”

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  38. “So there was a woman called Jessica MacDonald who testified at the hearing. She was in her early 20s at the time. So she was a ballet dancer. Obviously we know about the horrendous pressures on body shape for ballet dancers. And she would take this drug like disamphetamine-based drug until she passed out to be thin. She would take it to starve herself because she wanted to be that ballet. There was a guy called Tony Smith from State Center in Iowa who testifies that his daughter Noel from when she was very young became obsessed with the idea that she was fat. She would go and look at these fashion magazines and say Daddy, do you think I'm fat? Why don't I look like these women?”

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  39. “Go beyond concerned, and we don't have to speculate about this. We've been here before. So in the early 90s, there was a very popular amphetamine-based diet drug that was marketed in the United States. And it was huge. And lots of teenage girls used it, and it led to a catastrophe. There was a guy called Rob Wyden, who was a congressman for Ohio at the time who held congressional hearings on this, and they are really chilling to read because they show what happens when a popular diet drug combines”

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  40. “That's because of lockdown, to be fair. That's not a result of the drugs. That's because of the massive stress of lockdown.”

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  41. “Don't think it's so much, I don't think that's the concern. But there is, I think you've gone to a really important point. We know all forms of diet slow down your metabolism, right? That's a reality about diet, which is why often people end up fatter at the end than they were at the start. I'm worried about, and again, I ask lots of scientists and people just said, we don't know. I'm worried about... My metabolism slowing down as I take this drug if I, let's say they discovered some terrible problem with it and it had to be withdrawn, would I then have a slower metabolism and be fatter than I was at the start? One knows that's a significant risk”

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  42. “Again, probably the best comparison is bariatric surgery. You have bariatric surgery, you lose an absolute shit ton of weight, and then you regain a little bit of it over the next few years, and then you sort of plateau at that higher point. But we don't know. The truth is no one knows.”

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  43. “Yeah, and there's a big debate about, we mentioned before with the amphetamine based diet drugs from the past, that people develop tolerance. One of the big question marks around this is do people develop tolerance? Does it mean that over time it will have less of an effect, right? Now, some scientists, the scientists asked about this just were wildly all over the place. Some said no, we do know diabetics don't seem to develop tolerance because if they did, they would need higher and higher doses to get the same level of control for their blood sugar. That's a point against tolerance, but others said it would seem quite likely we'd have tolerance. We developed tolerance for most drugs. It would be surprising if we didn't. Probably what's most likely, again, Corel LaRue, the South African psychiatrist, said to me.”

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  44. “Do I think... Well, if I'm typical, we know from the clinical trials 70% of people regain the weight within a year. No, I don't think so. If I'm being really honest with myself, I don't think so. I think I have made lots of changes in my life that mean I don't think I would go back to quite where I was, but I think I would very rapidly regain a lot of weight.”

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  45. “Such that it's hard to come back, right? I don't mean I had no responsibility in that, I did. But we don't have to continue like this.”

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  46. “And it doesn't have to be this way. You know, now part of that solution in the short and medium term is going to be these drugs. In the longer term, it doesn't have to even be that. Japan is a real country. It exists. They solved this problem. There are other countries in the world that are solving these problems. We don't have to tolerate this being done to our children. We don't have to accept us being made sick and our children being made sick. But it requires an awakening around what's really happening, who's doing this does at the moment. You know, whenever I, my weight goes up and down, right? It has gone up and down throughout my life. And whenever I was fatter, I would blame myself, right? I wasn't angry with the forces that have done this to us, right? More three-year-old children know what the McDonald's M means than know their own last name, right? I didn't choose that world. I didn't choose to live in a world where we were, you know, constantly promoted and fattened and physically changed.”

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  47. “This is what you get if you get this right, if you sort out the obesity crisis, you get to have more years of health and joy and dancing, right? That's what we're fighting for here. I think about How many people I know who died young? Because of complications related to obesity, everyone listening and watching will know someone who would be alive now if we had sorted out the obesity crisis but has died. Everyone, right?”

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  48. “The first person I met was a one hundred and two year old woman called Matsu Fakuchi, who was this almost like this kind of perfect crumple of wrinkles, right? She was so cheerful chatting to her. She was like, I can't stay for long because I'm looking after my son who fell off the roof the other day fixing it. I was like, Jesus, how old is your son? And she was like, oh, I love, you know, she was so full of joy. She's like, I love life. I spent all of yesterday watching volleyball with my grandchildren. It's so great. She was so happy. She'd walk there on her own. And then there's this moment where they put on some music. She put on this red kimono and she started dancing and all these old women as old as a century start dancing. Right. And I danced with her. And I was thinking, God, this is this woman was born before radio started broadcasting in Japan. And here I am recording an interview with her on my iPhone.”

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  49. “Started to see what you win if you get this right. So Japan has the longest life expectancy in the whole world. And one of the best things I did for the book, one of the most moving things for me, is I went to the oldest village in the whole world. It's in Okinawa in the deep south of Japan. And there's a village called Ogimi where there's 215 households and one hundred and ninety of them have someone who's over the age of ninety living there, right? So it's the oldest place on earth. Japan has by far the longest life expectancy in the world. And not just that you're far less likely to get sick as you age. So they have not just mortal life, but more healthy life. And I went to their little community center.”

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  50. “And yeah, explain to the Japanese people who kept going, you know, every morning in this office when we'd all be having donuts and coffee, they do aerobics together. It was bizarre. And I would sort of explain to these Japanese people, right, if you tried to do this in Britain, we would burn the fucking office down, right? And they would just go, well, why? Why? They couldn't understand why I was so affronted by it. And that's a big cultural chasm. And we can't do that and I wouldn't want us to do that. If you look at so many of the other changes in Japan,”

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