Have We Been Lied To About Ozempics Hidden Health Risks ~ Chris Williamson

Balancing the scales of a novel food environment that we've only recently created

That's a brilliant way of putting it. Exactly right.

But it's adding more tension to the system, right? It's not like it precisely reba-- Well, it, it does rebalance the scales, but it rebalances the scales by adding weight on both sides. You're now still probably eating the same hyper-palatable stuff, just less of it, and you're having to take the drug to improve your society level, satiety so that you don't have the problem.

Yeah, it's a good way of putting it. I mean, some people do more radically change their diet. I actually was eating smaller portions of the same old [censored] for a long time, and I have now changed a bit. I wouldn't want to overstate it. But-

Oh, yeah, does it want you-- Does it make you want to eat different sorts of foods? Does it make hyper-palatable foods less palatable?

S- yes, but interestingly, there's a range of experiences in this. So I was unusual. So I just wanna preface this by saying my diet was unbelievably [censored] before this, right? One of the lowest points of my life was, I could tell you exactly when it happened, Christmas Eve 2009 at 1:00 p.m., I went into my local branch of KFC in East, the East End of London, where I used to live. And I went in and I said my standard order, which is so disgusting, I'm not gonna say it in front of someone who looks as glowingly healthy as you, Chris. And the guy behind the counter said, "Oh, Johann, I'm really glad you're here." I was like, "All right." And he went off behi-behind where they fry all the chicken and everything, and he came back with all the other people who were working that day and a massive Christmas card in which they'd written, "To our best customer." Everyone had written, like, personal messages for me. And one of the reasons my heart sank is I thought, "This isn't even the fried chicken shop I come to the most," right? [chuckles]

Wow.

How could this be fucking happening to me? It was a bad day, right? It was the second worst moment in, uh, my life of being fat. The worst was when I was fat-shamed by the Dalai Lama, but that's a different story.

[chuckles]

Turns out he's a total [censored] bitch, but who knew?

Ah. [chuckles]

But the, but the-- so this, this... For me, that was my diet, right? Going right back to when I was a kid. I was raised by my mum and my grandmother, who were working class Scottish women, whose way of giving love was to give you [censored] food, right? And God bless them, they were ama-amazing people. Um, and a lot of people, the worst effect of the drug for them is it kills their pleasure in food. So think, for example, about Jay Rayner, who's a brilliant British food critic. I'm sure you've read him. He writes for The Guardian and The Observer. He, um, he started to take Ozempic, and he describes going into, like, the best Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris, and to him it was like a lump of wood, right? A lot of people report this problem. He didn't-

What, what is-- is that a downregulation of the way that your taste buds work? Have you got any idea what the mechanism is?

No one knows. You ask the experts, and they go, "Uh, we don't know." I