In this episode of聽Change Your Mind with New 女生小视频, health journalists Helen Thomson and Cat de Lange dive into the headline grabbing class of drugs behind the Ozempic boom to ask what these medications are really doing to our brains? Beyond weight loss and diabetes, early evidence hints at wide鈥憆anging effects on appetite, addiction, mood and even long鈥憈erm brain health. With so many people now taking GLP鈥�1 agonists, are we unintentionally running the largest brain experiment in history, and what is it starting to reveal?
To find out, they鈥檙e joined by聽Professor Paul Kenny, a leading expert on the brain鈥檚 reward and motivation systems. Together, they unpack how these drugs might quiet 鈥渇ood noise鈥�, reshape our cravings, and potentially influence conditions like depression, alcohol use and Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, while also confronting their cultural side effects, from shifting body ideals to questions about who really benefits.聽
Produced by Emily Bird