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This Is (Not) About Your BodyAuthor: Jessi Kneeland
Welcome! This Is (Not) About Your Body is a body neutrality podcast hosted by Jessi Kneeland, author of BODY NEUTRAL: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Body Image Issues. Exploring all the real and deeper issues impacting body image, it features interviews on a wide range of relevant topics like mental health, intuitive eating, fatphobia, beauty ideals, sexuality, and gender. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Sexuality Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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GLP-1s Are Changing What We Want: The Benefits, Risks, and Bigger Questions
Episode 1
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026
I start by answering all the questions people asked about my own personal journey with using GLP-1s to quit vaping (including the specific type and dosage and effects), and I try my hardest to put into the words the intangible changes I experienced to my non-vape-related mental chatter and what I’m calling “coping noise," and "signal clarity."Then I go through the emerging non-weight-loss related benefits, and where the research is with regard to each one currently—including around addiction, compulsive behaviors, inflammation and chronic pain, and more—as well as how to understand the contradictory information we’re seeing around how GLP-1s impact libido, energy, pleasure, and other motivational “drives.”Finally I dive deep into the massive alarming risks and concerns that I think we should all have about GLP-1s, in particular for people who are using it to lose weight. including malnutrition, the triggering of old (or new) disordered eating thoughts and feelings, the rise of GLP-1 abuse and increased fatality among people with eating disorders, and the mental health catastrophe that a lot of people face if they need to stop taking them for any reason.
