Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.
What happened
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade.
But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new report suggests that the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up between 1990 and 2023—by a whopping 71%.
By 2023,…
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