WaPo: Ozempic may be reshaping the brain
Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs were initially understood as a metabolism breakthrough: medicines that act like hormones to control hunger, blood sugar and weight. But as researchers probe deeper into how the drugs work, early evidence suggests that GLP-1s may also be reshaping parts of the brain.
This, along with President Trump’s recent executive order to encourage testing of psychedelic drugs, means many people are going to get their brains re-jiggered.
That’s good, a lot of brains seem to be malfunctioning. Maybe the brains get fixed or they start malfunctioning in new ways.
“We didn’t expect to see this effect, and we really don’t know what it means,” Shapiro said.
That’s fine. It’s astounding how much of science is useful, but not fully understood.