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Michael Lutter

Michael Lutter

Aug 18, 2026

14:53
Um, you know, if, if we, if we talked to the di- Dr. Luter four years ago and said, "Hey, what about GLP-1s for eating disorders?" how would you react?
15:01
Oh, well, I mean, I've been doing this for probably eight years.
15:04
Um, yeah, so the way I, uh, the way I got into it is, um, you know, I used to be in academics and I had, uh, for about eight years I ran a research program.
15:15
The, the, the very last study I had when I, I knew I was leaving academ- academia, I had about $100,000 of startup money left.
15:23
So I literally just took all the samples I had in the freezer and sent them off for whole exome sequencing, and I'm just like, "I'm just gonna blow my shot," right? [laughs] So I sent everything off.
15:33
So we sequenced all of the genes.
15:35
You know, 20,000 plus genes for over 100 people.

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28:23
Do you think there could be some overlap here with, you know, ketones in the brain, metabolic health, metabolic dysfunction, all of that, that sort of fits with this picture too for treating, uh, binge eating disorder?

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