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  1. “Quite quickly, they just go wild for it. They shun the food they evolve to have, and they just start obsessively eating the cheesecake, the fried bacon, the snickers bars. He described to me how they would like, he would put the cheesecake in and they would just hurl themselves into the cheesecake and they like eat their way out and merge like completely slicked with the cheesecake. So given this kind of food, all their nutritional wisdom disappeared, just went away, and they became obsessed with this new kind of food. And as he put it to me, within a couple of days they were different animals. All their health indicators were worse. They were obsessively eating within a few weeks. Their health was really bad. They became extremely obese. And then he varied the experiment even more in a way it seemed to me as a former junk food addict a little bit cruel. He took all the American diet away and they just have the food they evolved to have, the food they used to eat, right? And he was quite sure he knew.”

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  2. “Does this food, when you consume it, change your brain in ways that compel you to consume it more? What's going on? See, he designed an experiment that sort of investigated this, which I've nicknamed Cheesecake Park. That's not its official name, right? You get a load of rats and you raise them in a cage. And they've just got the kind of food that rats evolve to eat over thousands of years. It's pellets based on their natural diet. And if you do that, even though they've got far more pellets than they could actually eat, they will eat enough to deal with their hunger and then they just naturally stop, right? So when they've got the kind of food they evolve to have, they never become overweight or obese. They just stabilize their weight. They've got a kind of natural nutritional wisdom. Then Professor Kenny introduced the American diet to them. He fried up some bacon. He bought some snickers bars. And crucially, he gives them a load of cheesecake. And they come along and they nibble the cheesecake and the other stuff.”

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  3. “Here, right? What happened, which is where society is so important. So it's this experiment that I think helps to understand that thing you were saying about sugar. It's done by this guy, Professor Paul Kenney, who's the head of neuroscience at Mount Sinai in New York and a brilliant neuroscientist. So Paul grew up in Dublin, and he moved to the US when he was in his twenties to do his PhD, I think, and he moved to San Diego first. And he quickly clocked Americans do not eat like Irish.”

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  4. “Need to think about when I was learning about this, I remember thinking. This is a much more intimate and risky transformation than when you first hear, oh, I'm taking something that affects my stomach, right? So there's a lot there about the brain and implications for addiction as well, which we can talk about. But to come to the thing you asked about, which is so important, of all the things I learned, there was an experiment that kind of freaked me out about this. Because obviously I was trying to figure out, well, how did we get to this point? Because at first glance, I can see how it seems crazy. In a way it did to me, you know. We gained an enormous amount of weight in the last 40 years. I was born in 1979. The year I was born, 6% of British people were obese. It's now 26%, right? Staggering increase unprecedented in human history. And it seems extraordinary that we've reached the point where we would inject ourselves with a potentially risky drug to stop us from eating. It seems so unnatural and so wrong. And I was trying to think, well, how did we get...”

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  5. “An untruthful point. The third theory about how it could be working in the brain, and this comes from a scientist called Professor Paul Kenny who actually did the experiment that relates to what you just said. He argues that in your brain you don't just have a reward system, you have something called the satiety system. And this is a crucial concept for people who want to understand these drugs and what's gone wrong with our diets more generally to understand. Satiety is just the feeling of having had enough, right? We've all had the feeling of being sated. You're like, okay, I'm done. I don't want anymore. We get that with food, sex, all sorts of things, right? You're just sated. He argues that in your brain, basically alongside the reward system, there's also a satiety system, a system that just says, Stephen, you've had enough. Stop now. And he argues that what these drugs do is they dial up your society system. They don't dial down your reward system, right? There's a huge and ongoing debate about that. What we do know is they're having some really significant effect on the brain, and that has all sorts of implications that...”

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  6. “Yeah, there's an experiment that proves you're right in a complicated way. Can I just finish off one thing about brain and then come back to that? Because you raised a super important.”

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  7. “That obviously brings with it a set of risks because then you go, okay, if it's dampening my reward system for Big Macs, is it dampening my reward system for the things I love? Writing, reading. There's a big debate about this. There's concern that in some people it may be causing suicidal feelings. And in some people, it may be causing depression. There is a warning on the drug to that effect required by the FDA, the Finn Drug Agency in the United States. So that's one concern. But there are other scientists who say that that's not correct, that the suicide risk is not accurate and that they don't work by dampening a reward system. Some people, like Aurelio Galli, who's at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, said to me what he thinks that it does is it resets your preferences. It's almost like taking your phone back to the factory settings. It resets key elements of the kind of food you want to a healthier level.”

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  8. “you know you have sex you eat you meet up with a friend your reward centers hum right it's what makes you feel good when you do something pleasurable and one theory about these drugs is they dampen your reward system so the reason i don't want a big mac is that a big mac is not as rewarding to me as it would have been before i took these drugs right”

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  9. “Of my low points in life was Christmas Eve 2009. I went to my local branch of KFC just around the corner from where we are now because I used to live near here. And I said to the guy behind the counter, my standard order, which is so gross, I won't repeat it. And the guy behind the counter said, oh, Johan, I'm really glad you're here. Wait a minute. I was like, all right. And he went off behind where they throw the chicken and everything. And he came back with a massive Christmas card and everyone who was working that day. And they'd written to our best customer and they all clapped me and one of the things that was so terrible is I thought this isn't even the fried chicken shop I come to the most, right? How can this be happening to me? But so when you speak to the cutting edge neuroscientists and I interview them in great depth, there's basically three theories about what these drugs are doing to your brain, right? Very broadly. I mean, this is a quite crude way of putting it. So one is you have in your brain something called the reward system. The reward system is what motivates you to do anything.”

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  10. “To me, you can tag the drug, which means that you can sort of diet and you can give it to animals and then cut open their brains. Obviously, you can't do that with humans. And when you do that, when you just give them the drug and you cut open their brain afterwards, what you find is this drug goes everywhere in the brain. It's going all over the brain. It is primarily having a brain effect, right? And it definitely also much more anecdotally feels that way when you take it, it feels like you want different things, right? It doesn't just feel like a physical sensation of I'm full. It feels I remember taking my godsons to McDonald's maybe a week after I started taking it and I didn't want a McDonald's and one of my godsons saying to me, who are you and what have you done with Johann, right? Contrary to my preferences and my...”

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  11. “This is totally fascinating. It opens up a whole new set of potential benefits for these drugs in relation to addiction and a whole set of potential risks for these drugs in relation to depression. So I want to stress there is very big scientific disagreement about what is happening in the brain in relation to these drugs. And it's a bit like when you interview people, it's like looking at a picture that's just coming into shape. So a year from now, we'll know much more than we do now. What was discovered, this actually discovered in the 90s here in London at Hammersmith Hospital was that in fact we don't only have GLP receptors in our guts, we have GLP receptors in our brains. In fact, GLP1 can be made in the brain, right? Which is fascinating. It could also be made in your thyroid, which is very significant, I'm sure we'll come back to. So when you take these drugs, as John Wilding, one of the key figures in the development of these drugs,”

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  12. “It massively slowed down my eating, and I actually enjoy food a fair bit more now. I don't want to overstate it. I'm not a foodie. I'm never going to be that person. But I remember going for dinner with one of my friends, maybe three or four months after I started taking it. And they're saying to me, you know, it's always been a bit stressful to eat with you because you eat so quickly, but you don't seem to really enjoy it. And now you do actually look like you're enjoying your food. But I stress again, I don't think I'm typical in that respect. There are far more people like Jay Rayner than there are like me.”

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  13. “Pleasure I got from food was not primarily from like tasting it and savouring it. The pleasure I got from food was mostly from kind of a feeling of stuffing myself. So stuffing is like, you do it at a Christmas dinners, we all do it sometimes. Stuffing is when you sort of eat deliberately beyond the point at which you're full. And you feel it as a physical sensation. You can feel it sort of pushing up on your esophagus and out on your stomach. And I think from when I was very young, I grew up in a very violent and crazy environment. I think one of the ways I learned to cope with that, there are many productive and positive ways I learned to cope with that, but one of the kind of downsides I learned to really eat, to soothe myself and I would stuff. And when I started taking Azempic, I actually couldn't eat like that anymore. You can't stuff yourself. I would literally throw up if I tried to stuff myself. So actually for me.”

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  14. “Couldn't get any pleasure out of it. So for him, it was just awful. It's a very common complaint that it drains pleasure from food. Honestly, I had almost the opposite experience, but I want to stress I do think I'm quite unusual. So I realised when I started taking these drugs, one of the fascinating things about these drugs is they will bring to the surface whatever psychological issues you had with food, right? Because it's so radically interrupts your eating patterns. And that can be very challenging for a lot of people. I'm sure we'll get into that. For me, I realized how much of my eating from when I was very young.”

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  15. “This is a big drawback for lots of people. I think I'm quite unusual, so I'll explain how most people feel about this, then I'll explain how I feel about it. You're absolutely right. Even Jens Jules Holst, who was one of the scientists who developed OzenPic, said, look, for most people, it's just a life without pleasure in food is just unbearable. And after a couple of years, they just give up because they want to enjoy life, right? And one of the key things that gives us pleasure throughout the day is eating. And a lot of people feel that way. If you look at, for example, Jay Rayner, a brilliant food critic here in Britain, you know, he just described how he started taking it. He would go to the best restaurants in Paris, places he loves, and he just.”

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  16. “And I came up to you, and you're completely bloated, you're lying on the sofa. And I came up to you and said, Hey, Stephen, I got you a Big Mac. Here it is. And you'd be like, I mean, you could physically force yourself to eat that Big Mac. You might throw up, but you probably could eat it. But you just don't want to. You feel full. So it creates a very rapid sense of fullness in response to far. So I used to eat 3,200 calories a day, roughly. I now eat about 1,800. There's a huge drop. And the benefits are kind of obvious of that. But there are really big costs. I discovered this. In fact, 12 really big risks. And there's all sorts of, because at first when you hear all this, you're like, well, this is just Kaching, win-win, right? Who wouldn't want this? But there's a lot of risks and downsides as well.”

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  17. “Yeah, not everyone gets to that state immediately. Some people it takes longer. Some people the side effects are just intolerable and they can't take it at all or they can't continue to take it. And I interviewed plenty of people who were in that position. But for most people, the best way I can describe it. Imagine you'd just had Christmas dinner”

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  18. “Push through it, you can carry on eating, right? Most people do stop when they get the signal so what these drugs do is they simulate GLP1. They inject into you an artificial copy of GLP1. But instead of that GLP1 remaining in your system for a few minutes and then disappearing, it stays in your system for a whole week. So when I go to that cafe and I eat the thing I'd normally eat, my system is filled with signals that say you're already full, Johann, you don't need anymore, right? So that was initially, that is definitely a key part of how it works. And it was initially thought that these drugs worked on your gut, right? These GLP1 is a hormone that's made in the gut. It's thought that the effect was it slows down your gut, it slows down gastric emptying. That is definitely happening, but the cutting edge science and the kind of leading neuroscientists that I interviewed now believe actually it primarily has an effect on your brain. It changes.”

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  19. “Relatively, so I interviewed the scientists who played the key role in the breakthroughs that led to the development of the drugs and then scientists who worked on it at every stage. So in one sense, they're not that new. Diabetics have been using them on license now for 18 years. So for obesity, they're relatively new. For diabetes, they've been around for nearly 20 years. And it was fascinating talking to the scientists involved because one of the things that's really weird about this is there's a huge debate about how they even work. So there's certain things that we know for sure. So if you now ate something, right, it doesn't matter what it is. After a while, hormone would start to be produced in your body called GLP1. And that is one of many gut hormones that would start to be created. And it's basically GLP1 is a natural signal saying, Stephen, you've had enough. Stop eating, right? Just stop now, right? But GLP1, natural GLP1, only remains in your system for a couple of minutes and then it's washed away. So if you sort of...”

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  20. “So it's about $800 between $800 and $1,200, bearing in mind there have been lots of shortages, which I'm sure we'll talk about. So the price has kind of been a bit sensitive to how much is actually available at any given time”

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  21. “So it varies massively because, as you know, I live half in the US, half in Britain a lot of the time. So in Britain, this costs you at the moment about £250 a month. In the US, it's way more like $800 a month.”

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  22. “I remember Tatiana, the woman who works in the cafe, kind of shouting after me to see if I was ill or something, and then for lunch I went to the same place I always go or went at the time. Next to my office there's a Turkish kind of restaurant. I went there. I ordered a Mediterranean lamb. Again, I had like three or four mouthfuls. I wasn't hungry. It was like the kind of shutters had come down on my appetite. I was literally 80% less hungry than I normally am. And it basically stayed that way from then on. It was very physically and psychologically strange experience.”

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  23. “Woken up and I wasn't hungry. I don't remember that ever happening to me before. I mean, I don't mean that as an exaggeration. I used to be woken up every day, like really hungry. Often I would be woken up by hunger, by my stomach rumbling. And I went on my kind of typical routine for the day. I went to this cafe just around the corner from where I live. And I ordered the same thing I would always order, which was a kind of big kind of brown roll with lots of chicken and mayo in it. and I had like three mouthfuls, and I was full. I just didn't want to eat anymore.”

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  24. “So it's very simple. It's just a little pen. It's like an epipen. So you take that, you put on the little lid. I won't take it out because I need this one later. But although this one's empty, so you put a little, you twist a little needle onto there and you inject yourself with it and you inject yourself once a week. And it's really strange the effect it has. I remember the first day I took the injection. A couple of days later, I remember waking up I was lying in bed, and I had this weird feeling. I don't think when you wake up and you're not quite with it. He thought, what am I feeling? And I was struggling to articulate it. And I thought, I felt mildly nauseous which everyone gets when they start taking it. But that wasn't the thing that was puzzling me. And then I realized.”

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  25. “Deeply conflicted. So, to really get to the bottom of this for my book, Magic Pill, I spent a year taking the drugs and going on this big journey all over the world from Reykjavik in Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo to interview the leading experts in the world on these drugs, the biggest supporters, the biggest critics, all sorts of kind of alleys and avenues that follow from them. And at the end of it, it's really weird. I know far more than I did before. I know far more about the benefits and risks. I know far more about what this is going to do to the culture and it will be massive. I'm still really conflicted.”

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  26. “Well, we know what causes obesity, right? The reason obesity is massively increased is because of a complete change in the food supply. We eat completely different food to what our grandparents ate. We need to deal with that, not kind of drug everyone. I also thought, well, what will happen to people with eating disorders when they get hold of this? What will this do to the kind of positive changes that were happening in accepting a kind of broader range of weights? So I was really...”

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  27. “Average person who uses them, I then pick Wigovi loses 15% of their body weight in a year with the new generation of drugs the next ones that are coming down the line. The average person loses 24% of their body weight. It's staggering. It's just below bariatric surgery. So I could see the obvious health benefit and I could see that the alternatives that most of us have been pursuing diets have not worked well for most people. But at the same time I thought I mean just I had so many doubts straight away. I thought, well, we've seen this story before. There have been lots of miracle diet drugs that have been announced. They caused dramatic weight loss at first and we always discover some horrendous side effect that causes catastrophic outcomes that mean the whole thing has to be pulled. I thought that. I thought”

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  28. “I've been really thrown, and then over the next few days I read a lot about these new weight loss drugs. And I've never, I don't remember ever coming across a topic where I felt so deeply conflicted from the very beginning and that conflict remained all the way through, right? The subtitle to my book is The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Los Drugs. And that's even right from the start, I was aware that was the tension. So the benefits are kind of obvious, right? You know, I'm older than my grandfather ever got to be because he died of a heart attack. Loads of the men in my family get really fat and die of heart attacks. My uncle died of a heart attack. My dad had a lot of heart problems. There's a lot of evidence that obesity unfortunately does cause a whole range of health problems, over 200 diseases and complications. There's a lot of evidence these drugs really do massively reduce or reverse obesity.”

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  29. “And I was kind of wandering around feeling a bit like, oh shit. And I bumped into a friend of mine on the dance floor, and I said to her, Why, it looks like everyone really did do pilates during lockdown. And she laughed, and then she looked at me, and I sort of looked at her, and she said, Well, you know it wasn't Pilates, right? Sort of looked at her blankly. And she pulled out a phone and she's Googled an image and she showed me an Ozempic pen. I didn't know what it was. And I said, What are you talking about? I said, Well, this is a drug. Everyone here is on this drug, right? Not just the stars, like their wives, their agents, their agents' kids, everyone, right?”

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  30. “So for me it started a kind of weird story. It started in the winter of 2020. So it was that weird period when kind of the world was opening up again after the pandemic. And I gained a lot of weight in lockdown like loads of people. And because of that kind of weird moment of reopening, I went to a party for the first time in like, I don't know, a year and a half, two years. And it was a party thrown by a kind of famous Hollywood actor. And on the way there, I remember thinking, oh, this is going to be kind of funny because all these Hollywood people are going to put on weight as well, right? They're going to have gained weight. What are they going to look like? So I remember getting there, looking around and having this really weird feeling because it's not just that they hadn't gained weight. Everyone was gaunt, right? Like everyone looked like their own Snapchat filter. Like they had higher cheekbones. They looked cleaner and clearer and sharp.”

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  31. “70% of the weight you've lost. Muscle mass loss is a real problem. There's concern that it may be causing suicidal feelings, and then there's one of the really big risks, and it's absolutely grim beyond belief. And that is”

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  32. “I really worry about the risk of these drugs. You're nine times more likely to get this particular condition, which is excruciatingly painful. And these drugs are working very hard on key parts of your brain. In fact, there are 12 significant risks, and we'll get into that. But it seems extraordinary that we've reached the point where we would inject ourselves with a potentially risky drug to stop us from eating. And we've had 40 years of relentlessly promoting diet and exercise as the only solution and only 10% of people really do lose huge amounts of weight on diets and keep it off. But now we have the most effective tool for self-starvation human beings have ever come up with when I started taking those MPIC. It was literally 80% less hungry than I normally am. These drugs really do massively reduce or reverse obesity. And a few years from now, we'll have 50% of the population taking it. It's the new miracle drug. Now, this is when I go through the 12 big risks, some of which have not really been explained to the public. So within a year of stopping, you regain”

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