Weight and Healthcare

Examining weight science, weight stigma, and what evidence, ethics, and lived experience teach us about best healthcare practices and public health for higher weight people.

Author: with Ragen Chastain

Examining the intersections of weight science, weight stigma, and healthcare and what evidence, ethics, and lived experience teach us about healthcare and public health best practices for higher-weight people. weightandhealthcare.substack.com
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Do GLP-1s Help With...?
Wednesday, 14 October, 2026

A lot of the questions I’m getting during Q&As right now (from healthcare providers AND from patients) are about possible uses for GLP-1s - from blood pressure to alcohol and substance use disorders to Binge Eating Disorder to lymphedema and lipedema and more- “Do GLP-1s really help with…” is becoming a very common question, and I think that’s by design.There are reasons for this - many of those reasons I would argue are being purposefully created by the drugs’ manufacturers, so today I’ll break down some of what’s happening and then tell you what questions we would need answers to in order to know if GLP-1s really help with… Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe