GLP-1s Are Changing What We Want:...
GLP-1s Are Changing What We Want: The Benefits, Risks, and Bigger Questions
This Is (Not) About Your Body by Jessi Kneeland
S4 · E1
Sep 15, 2026
01:36:02
Episode notes

I start by answering all the questions people asked about my own personal journey with using GLP-1s to quit vaping (including the specific type and dosage and effects), and I try my hardest to put into the words the intangible changes I experienced to my non-vape-related mental chatter and what I’m calling “coping noise," and "signal clarity."

Then I go through the emerging non-weight-loss related benefits, and where the research is with regard to each one currently—including around addiction, compulsive behaviors, inflammation and chronic pain, and more—as well as how to understand the contradictory information we’re seeing around how GLP-1s impact libido, energy, pleasure, and other motivational “drives.”

Finally I dive deep into the massive alarming risks and concerns that I think we should all have about GLP-1s, in particular for  ... 

Keywords
GLP-1
addiction
weight loss
eating disorder