Inside the GLP-1 Revolution: A Conversation with Professor Jens Juul Holst, Co-Discoverer of GLP-1

May 16th, 2026 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview, I speak to Professor Jens Juul Holst — co-discoverer of GLP-1, the gut hormone now powering the most consequential drug class of the century. He talks about how a Copenhagen experiment rewrote our understanding of obesity, why the gut behaves like a second brain wired into the…

 

Markets, Morals and the Road Ahead: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Professor Alvin Roth

May 5th, 2026 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
I speak to Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Alvin Roth on 'Moral Economics', exploring repugnant transactions — exchanges willing parties want but others would ban. Drawing on kidney exchange, vaccine challenge trials, surrogacy, drugs and medical aid in dying, he argues most contested markets cannot be abolished, only relocated, and must…