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The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals
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The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals

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Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinicians, they can represent something sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders.

A new report suggests the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up by 71% between 1990 and 2023. And clinicians are already seeing GLP-1s exacerbate the issue.

Here’s how they could make an already growing problem worse .

—Jessica Hamzelou

This story is from The Checkup, our weekly biotech newsletter.…

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