5 Live Science Podcast
Weight loss jabs, COP29, and Brainy birds
November 17, 202451 min · 9,072 words
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Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news. Including a look at what is at stake at this year's UN Climate Summit, and the 80 million year old fossil revealing how birds developed their big brains. Plus, an in-depth look at whether weight loss jabs could solve the obesity crisis.
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If your diet was so rubbish to begin with, right, and so therefore you had to eat quite a lot of it to make sure you had enough micronutrients and protein and what have you, suddenly you take these drugs and these drugs are so effective at making you feel full, you just eat less. You could actually, depending on how rubbish your diet was to begin with, tilt into malnutrition.
“The danger happens is when your fat cells become full. And when they become full, the fat then has to go somewhere else. And it goes to your liver. It goes to your muscles. It goes to your pancreas. It goes to your kidneys. It goes to tissues and organs, which are not designed to store fat at high levels.”
“We cannot treat them and send them back to the conditions that made them sick in the first place.”
“it's telling us the sequence of expansion of the different areas of the brain, because it was not a constant sort of expansion of the total brain. Some parts of the brain were actually expanding to modern standards, while other regions of the brain were not expanding at the same pace.”
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