Episode 1730 • • 2:28:26 - 2:32:11
1730: Pam Bondage
Expanding Obesity Definitions and GLP-1 Side Effects
A global team of health experts is proposing to expand the definition of obesity to include "pre-clinical obesity," a move that would increase the number of people eligible for GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic under Medicare. Concurrently, doctors have identified "allodynia"—a hypersensitivity to pain where even wind or clothing causes stinging—as a new side effect of these weight-loss medications.