GLP-1 Digest Podcast

Ash Sharma

Deep conversations with the world's leading experts on GLP-1 medications, obesity medicine, and the companies shaping this market. Hosted by Ashwin Sharma, founder of the GLP-1 Digest newsletter.

Episodes

  1. 11 APR

    Can GLP-1s Save the NHS? Ep. 4 with Lord James Bethell

    Lord James Bethell is a former UK Health Minister who served as Minister for Life Sciences during Covid. He chairs Business for Health, sat on the IPPR Commission that called the UK "the sick man of Europe," and advises the private health sector through his role at Oviva. In this conversation, we discuss the widening gap between what the NHS aspires to deliver on GLP-1s and what it actually can — and why the private market is filling the hole at unprecedented scale. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Healthy life expectancy hits record low 1:03 "Your generation is going to have to pay off the national debt" 3:47 Can big interventions make quick differences? 4:57 "20–30% of the House of Lords are on GLP-1s" 8:17 The private market is filling the gap — so why the stigma? 8:42 "We've socialised acute care but privatised prevention" 10:03 Digital platforms are working — and rebooting expectations 11:35 The halo effect: GLP-1s as a gateway to gyms, CGMs, wearables 12:12 "Don't believe the patient" — the culture of the NHS 15:44 What's actually blocking preventative healthcare? 16:38 40 million chronic disease patients. 23,000 GPs. 18:32 The auto-enrolment analogy: friction, not apathy 21:13 The split society: rich health vs poor health 23:16 "This is about Blackpool, not Buckinghamshire" 24:56 "We can't jog ourselves out of this problem" 27:07 Schools, smartphones, KFC, and childhood obesity 31:34 "Declining health outcomes are costing us an absolute fortune" 35:19 "We've infantilised our people so much they can't take their statins" 36:49 Being Health Minister during Covid: "permission and mission"

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Deep conversations with the world's leading experts on GLP-1 medications, obesity medicine, and the companies shaping this market. Hosted by Ashwin Sharma, founder of the GLP-1 Digest newsletter.

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