Seems like the Medicare Bridge program is working. I take this medication, and for a lot of us the barrier was never willpower, it was cost and access. Watching that door open for Medicare patients is a systems story, and it gives me real hope. #GLP1 #Zepbound

"Everyone should go up" is a forum story, not a clinical one. My new Field Note on the myth of the maximum Zepbound dose, and the two biases that build it. Experience, not advice. youtu.be/JMVOGqfJt_g #Zepbound #HealthLiteracy #Titration

There was a period of my life when I said "I did my own research" and meant it as a badge of honor. New Field Note, read aloud, on the difference between that and actually doing it.

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#IDidMyOwnResearch #ConfirmationBias #ScienceCommunication #TheHealthyNarrative

Every health story has a hero, a villain, and a victim, and someone else chose who plays which part. That's the lens behind my project, The Healthy Narrative. I posted a quick poll on my Substack: are you in my tribe? Vote and see where the story goes 🎭 #HealthStorytelling #GLP1 #GLP1Journey

Just podcast on Substack! I tell my own weight-and-GLP-1 story, and take it apart the way I’ll take apart my guests’: who the villain really was, and what I found when I moved the pieces. No before-and-after photos. No advice. Just the story, and an honest look underneath.

Since Zepbound, I still plate the big burrito out of habit when two tacos is what my body wants. New Field Note on interoception, and why that lag between body and mind isn't a problem: it's the healing catching up. www.thehealthynarrative.com/field-notes/...

Perhaps this indication will help guide researchers to explore more of the genetic expressions/implications of obesity, looking at pre-clinical foreshadows, showing up long before folks see the clinical manifestations after childhood.

“GLP-1 agonists work by imitating a natural hormone (GLP-1) created in the small intestine in response to food intake, but there are GLP-1 receptors not only in the stomach, small intestine, colon, and pancreas — to aid in digestion — but also in the heart, kidneys, lungs, and brain.”

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is launching a Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of semaglutide for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) in adult veterans. 🔗👇

A 12% bump in life-span is promising. It's a mouse study, but may our heath-spans receive a similar bump. I for one am hopeful that my Zepbound Rx will help contribute to a healthful, joyful, grannyhood in the decades to come. #GLP1 #WeightLoss #Aging #Longevity #Ozempic

“THE SKINNY SHOT" WAS NEVER THE STORY
“The drugs society is calling skinny shots are turning out to be tools for staying in a healthy relationship with your own body for the long term. This includes looking after your heart and kidneys and liver and breath for the long haul.”

HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE
​“Obesity is one of the few chronic illnesses you cannot hide, so strangers read your body and think they already know your story.” www.thehealthynarrative.com/field-notes/... #glp-1 #obesitystigma #hellisotherpeople

“New research finds that people taking GLP-1 tend to spend less money grocery shopping, especially on snacks.”

“At the same time, Gallup points out the obesity rate among Americans fell to 36.4% in 2026, down from a record high of 39.9% in 2022, the year after GLP-1 medication Wegovy was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat weight loss.”

New from The Healthy Narrative: a podcast and a written series, both about the stories we tell about our weight, and what GLP-1 medications do to them. No before-and-after. Lived it? Come tell yours, out loud or on the page: www.thehealthynarrative.com/share-your-s...