Telling People You're on Mounjaro: Dating and Identity (with Dr Treena Orchard)

This Is My Journey | The GLP-1 Podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 31m

Ninety-one per cent of people who have actually taken these medications would recommend them to a friend who was struggling with their weight. Now ask those same people whether they've told their friends they're on it. That figure comes from a survey of nearly thirteen hundred UK adults published in BMJ Public Health. The same study found people who had taken these drugs were around seven times more likely than people who hadn't to reject the idea that they're unsafe or unproven, a mismatch the researchers themselves flagged between what the public assumes and what the people living it…