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I am still a physiologist. I am not absorbed by the pharmaceutical industry. I have stuck to my laboratory, to the science.
It should remain a prescription drug — because you need instructions at the same time on what to do.
We have a compound that, as one of its main functions, really addresses precisely this. It remedies the inflammation and the toxic consequences of obesity.
All of this was unexpected. The entire development was unexpected. Nobody could really believe that this would happen.
Nobody in the beginning believed that it was possible to create an obesity treatment with this kind of drug. Everybody would say, “oh, it’s their own fault.”
It was possible to get up to 0.4 milligrammes per day, and all of a sudden there was a 14 to 15 per cent weight loss. That changed the whole picture.
What we have in the colon may actually be a kind of defence system regulating the mucosal integrity of the body.
It is, in fact, what we call an enterogastrone hormone — an ileal brake hormone — that sends the signal that enough is enough, stop.
Interviews
Inside the GLP-1 Revolution: A Conversation with Professor Jens Juul Holst, Co-Discoverer of GLP-1
In this interview, I speak to Professor Jens Juul Holst — co-discoverer of GLP-1, the gut hormone now...
Markets, Morals and the Road Ahead: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Professor Alvin Roth
I speak to Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Alvin Roth on 'Moral Economics', exploring repugnant transactions — exchanges willing...
In this interview, I speak to Professor Andrés Velasco — Dean of LSE’s School of Public Policy, Chile’s...
In this interview I speak to Dr Leanne ten Brinke - an award-winning psychologist and associate professor at...
From Feature Engineering to Superintelligence: Richard Socher on the Next Frontier of AI
In this interview I speak to Dr. Richard Socher — pioneer of neural NLP, inventor of widely used...
Nir Eyal: Why Belief — Not Talent, Effort, or Strategy — Is the Real Driver of Human Performance
You know what to do. So why aren’t you doing it? In this interview, I speak to NYT...
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What 160 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about war, peace, and geopolitics
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