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GLP-1 Basics

What GLP-1 is, how these medications work in the body, and what they were originally designed to do.

GLP-1 Basics

What is GLP-1? The hormone behind a new era of weight medicine

GLP-1 isn't a drug — it's a hormone your gut already makes. Understanding it is the easiest way to understand what Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro actually do inside the body.

Emma Sinclair11 min read

GLP-1 Basics

From 'Skinny Jabs' to 'The O Word': How GLP-1 Changed Internet Culture

Ozempic Face, Skinny Jabs, The Hollywood Shot, the Wonder Jab. A cultural feature on how a class of diabetes medications steadily rewrote the language of weight loss online — and what it says about the way we now talk about appetite, bodies, and modern medicine.

Sofia Moreau14 min read

GLP-1 Basics

How Novo Nordisk steadily changed the world of weight loss

The Danish company behind Wegovy, Ozempic, and the global GLP-1 revolution. A long-form editorial on a hundred-year-old insulin maker that ended up reshaping how the modern world talks about appetite, obesity, and the body.

Sofia Moreau18 min read

GLP-1 Basics

The next GLP1 revolution: why Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly want to replace weekly injections with pills

Injections built the modern weight-loss era. The next chapter is being written in tablets. A long read on the oral GLP1 race between Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly — and what a daily pill could mean for adoption, cost, culture, and the future of obesity medicine.

Sofia Moreau18 min read

GLP-1 Basics

The future of GLP1 medications: what happens next?

Five years ago, almost nobody outside diabetology had heard of semaglutide. Today it is one of the defining stories of modern medicine. The next ten years will reshape it again — and the early outlines are already visible.

Marcus Hale15 min read