Who Deserves a GLP-1? with Dr. Janelle Duah

Who Deserves a GLP-1? with Dr. Janelle Duah

GLP-1 medications seemed to appear overnight: suddenly everywhere from physicians’ offices to TikTok feeds to dinner table conversations. But for obesity and lifestyle medicine specialist Dr. Janelle Duah, the story started long before the headlines. In the first episode of The Preprint, Dr. Neel Shah and Dr. Duah unpack what GLP-1s actually are, how they affect nearly every organ system in the body, and why the cultural conversation around these drugs reveals something much larger for women and families than weight loss. Together, they explore the growing tension between informed patients and skeptical physicians, the rise of direct-to-consumer medicine, and the uncomfortable reality that many of the patients who could benefit most from these medications still can’t access them. Dr. Duah also reflects on treating patients while living with PMOS herself, the stigma surrounding obesity medicine, and what it means when physicians react defensively to so-called “prepared patients.”  At its core, this episode asks a bigger question: when medicine changes faster than the healthcare system can adapt, who gets left behind?

Introducing: The Preprint with Dr. Neel Shah

Every person should be able to find their shortest and easiest path to parenthood. But that’s not the world we live in yet. Introducing The Preprint with Dr. Neel Shah: a monthly podcast hosted by Dr. Shah, an OB/GYN and Chief Medical Officer at Maven Clinic, the world’s largest virtual clinic for women and families. Dr. Shah explores the systems that bring people into the world, the ones that let them down, and what those of the future should look like. Drawing on the concept of a scientific paper before it’s been peer-reviewed, each episode shares dispatches from the frontlines of women’s and family health through real conversations with experts on what it takes to build something better. Subscribe to The Preprint with Dr. Neel Shah on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every month.  Want more from Dr. Shah? Follow his Substack: The Preprint with Dr. Neel Shah.