Jun 8, 2026 · 33 min · 11 segments
Everyone is talking about what GLP-1s can do. Far fewer people are talking about what they can't. In this episode, I'm sharing my thoughts as a coach who has worked with many women using GLP-1…
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Because a GLP-1 is a medication, and it gets prescribed by a doctor, and only your doctor can tell you and advise you whether or not it makes sense for you.
And so what I will say, and I will do a little bit of a sidebar on this, is it is, from a cultural standpoint and also from a healthcare standpoint, fascinating to me that you can get GLP-1s without seeing a doctor, without connecting to a doctor.
You can go into a medi-spa clinic or a cryotherapy or, like, you know, like a Botox place, and they have doctors on staff who will write, write prescriptions.
Yes, a doctor has to write a prescription for you, but that doctor doesn't have to know anything about you.
You don't have to, like, go through the process of being seen and evaluated by a doctor.
And I want you to think about what other medications can you think of where that exists? I'm not talking over the counter where you can go to Walgreens.
If you feel depressed, can you go and get Prozac? If you're concerned that your thyroid is off, can you go and get, uh, Synthroid? Um, if you're worried about your high blood pressure, can you get high blood pressure medication? No.
But you can go get a GLP-1 to lose weight if you feel like losing-10 pounds or more.
Um, and that is a-- that's-- those are facts, right? And I think it's something that we need to be aware of and notice because that's, that's a-- there are cultural and so-sociological implications to that, and what does that mean? What does that mean that we can get this medication but not other medications, and why? Because it's about weight loss.
That's why the access to it is so, um, uncontrolled basically, and that there are these compounded versions, right? So if you don't know, when you hear Zepbound or Ozempic or Mounjaro, those are the medications that are main by-- made by the pharma-pharmaceutical companies.
Because a GLP-1 is a medication, and it gets prescribed by a doctor, and only your doctor can tell you and advise you whether or not it makes sense for you.
And so what I will say, and I will do a little bit of a sidebar on this, is it is, from a cultural standpoint and also from a healthcare standpoint, fascinating to me that you can get GLP-1s without seeing a doctor, without connecting to a doctor.
You can go into a medi-spa clinic or a cryotherapy or, like, you know, like a Botox place, and they have doctors on staff who will write, write prescriptions.
Yes, a doctor has to write a prescription for you, but that doctor doesn't have to know anything about you.
You don't have to, like, go through the process of being seen and evaluated by a doctor.
And I want you to think about what other medications can you think of where that exists? I'm not talking over the counter where you can go to Walgreens.
If you feel depressed, can you go and get Prozac? If you're concerned that your thyroid is off, can you go and get, uh, Synthroid? Um, if you're worried about your high blood pressure, can you get high blood pressure medication? No.
But you can go get a GLP-1 to lose weight if you feel like losing-10 pounds or more.
Um, and that is a-- that's-- those are facts, right? And I think it's something that we need to be aware of and notice because that's, that's a-- there are cultural and so-sociological implications to that, and what does that mean? What does that mean that we can get this medication but not other medications, and why? Because it's about weight loss.
That's why the access to it is so, um, uncontrolled basically, and that there are these compounded versions, right? So if you don't know, when you hear Zepbound or Ozempic or Mounjaro, those are the medications that are main by-- made by the pharma-pharmaceutical companies.
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