Happy to be on a streak of excellent reads! Magic Pill is Johann Hari’s exploration of this new world we call GLP-1 antagonist medicines: Ozempic, Wegovy, and others. Both as a participant (he’s taking Wegovy) and as an external observer (though obviously not totally unbiased), Hari presents a really challenging and compelling case for and against GLP-1’s. We don’t know all the risks yet; we don’t know what we don’t know… but we do know that remaining obese carries much, much bigger risks. So it’s a balancing act of something unknown versus something certainly very bad. This book explores the experience of being on these drugs, both from a scientific and subjective/experiential standpoint, and forced me into a lot of thought. It was also the beginning of my own new chapter in my body weight journey, which I wrote about here.