✅ My unhealthy relationship with food. ✅ How the new weight loss drugs actually work. ✅ The monster breakthrough. ✅ How a Danish pharmaceutical giant became the most valuable company in Europe. ✅ The promises and perils of Ozempic and Wegovy. ✅ Obesity is now considered a disease - aging should be next.

Before we begin, some housekeeping.

📖 This is a long read. You might want to come back when you have some time to spare. This is also why there are no sections at the bottom this time - but they’ll be back in my next newsletter.

⏳To clarify: In the healthspan vs lifespan debate I am very much in the lifespan camp. Meaning I am of the opinion that life is good and death is bad. We should be able to live indefinitely, not only seek to improve our health and then be satisfied with the ridiculously short amount of time we get as it stands right now.

Yet this installment of LEVITY has nothing to do with treatments and interventions that might take us to 120 and far beyond. So why bother? Well, we need to be around when new revolutionary technology arrives and it seems to me that the medications discussed below might help millions of people live longer than they otherwise would have.

🙏🏼 I’m so grateful to all of you who signed up to subscribe! It’s still early days but the response so far has been very encouraging! ❤️

Alright, let’s get this show on the road!

Keeping a healthy diet is tricky even if everything in life is going according to plan. And as you are well aware, many times it doesn’t. At which point those pesky emotions starts calling the shots. Disrupted sleep and hormonal imbalances can lead to a cascade effect, impairing the decision-making and self-control centers of the brain. In such moments, the pursuit of instant gratification takes over, driven by the craving for that sweet dopamine release. I am pretty sure there was some ice cream left in the freezer.

I know this all too well. The battle is ongoing.