It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
Jun 25, 2026 · 51 min · 12 segments
Nobody screens you for disordered eating before prescribing a GLP-1. That is not an accident. It is a gap in the entire informed consent process, and it is the subject of this conversation. I talk…
Michelle TubmanGuestStephanie DodierHostSo we're on this series talking about GLP-1, so just so we go through the basic.
What's a GLP-1, and, uh, what does it do for the body or what is it observed clinically to do for the body?
So basically, GLP-1 medications are a group of medications that were actually developed a long time ago for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes.
What had happened is during studies examining this particular use, they noticed that weight loss was a side effect of this drug.
Taking advantage of that fact, they decided to study this drug at higher doses to maximize the side effect of weight loss to see if it would actually result in weight loss taking this medication at the higher dose for that purpose.
One is the very legitimate treatment of Type 2 diabetes, but also, as we're all very well aware now, it seems to be the primary use now is for weight loss, and we see it everywhere.
I was watching, you know, the Montreal Canadiens play a couple nights ago, and even in the NHL playoffs, we've got Ozempic advertisements on the, on the boards on, on the rink.
So that messaging is, is really, really everywhere, but the original purpose of these drugs was to teach or to treat Type 2 diabetes, and it does this through many different, um, mechanisms in terms of glucose metabolism.
Um, but it also affects multiple different systems in the body, including in our brain and nervous system and in our digestive system, as well as in our metabolic system.
Now, be it when 2026, the biggest group is people taking it for intentional weight loss.
That is correct, and what we're also seeing now is people s- looking at additional uses for GLP-1s, like treating Alzheimer's has come up recently, and, um, kidney disease and, and other conditions as well.
So we're on this series talking about GLP-1, so just so we go through the basic.
What's a GLP-1, and, uh, what does it do for the body or what is it observed clinically to do for the body?
So basically, GLP-1 medications are a group of medications that were actually developed a long time ago for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes.
What had happened is during studies examining this particular use, they noticed that weight loss was a side effect of this drug.
Taking advantage of that fact, they decided to study this drug at higher doses to maximize the side effect of weight loss to see if it would actually result in weight loss taking this medication at the higher dose for that purpose.
One is the very legitimate treatment of Type 2 diabetes, but also, as we're all very well aware now, it seems to be the primary use now is for weight loss, and we see it everywhere.
I was watching, you know, the Montreal Canadiens play a couple nights ago, and even in the NHL playoffs, we've got Ozempic advertisements on the, on the boards on, on the rink.
So that messaging is, is really, really everywhere, but the original purpose of these drugs was to teach or to treat Type 2 diabetes, and it does this through many different, um, mechanisms in terms of glucose metabolism.
Um, but it also affects multiple different systems in the body, including in our brain and nervous system and in our digestive system, as well as in our metabolic system.
Now, be it when 2026, the biggest group is people taking it for intentional weight loss.
That is correct, and what we're also seeing now is people s- looking at additional uses for GLP-1s, like treating Alzheimer's has come up recently, and, um, kidney disease and, and other conditions as well.
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