GLP-1s are everywhere- whispered at school gates, dissected on Reddit at 2am, dropped casually into brunch chat like everyone suddenly got a medical degree. A year ago most of us had never heard the term. Now it’s Hollywood’s worst-kept secret, the NHS’s newest headache, and the quiet pressure sitting behind half the conversations women have about their bodies.

But beneath the glossy “skinny reveal” culture and celebrity confessions lies a far messier truth. one nobody seems willing to say out loud.
On this week’s episode of Why Aren’t We Talking About This? I sit down with Bertie Stringer: former TV and PR insider turned nutritionist, hormone-health founder. She’s spent the past decade helping people rebuild their relationship with food… and now she’s watching that entire landscape detonate in real time.

In our conversation, Bertie pulls back the curtain on what GLP-1s really are- the tool, the trap, the cultural tidal wave, and why so many women are stepping into something that feels like salvation, only to discover a silence no one prepared them for.

This isn’t a story about weight loss.
It’s a story about confusion, honesty, malnourishment, identity, and a generation of women navigating a drug that can switch off hunger but not the emotions that live underneath it.
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Why Aren’t We Talking About This? is a series of honest conversations about the stuff we rarely discuss but probably should - big feelings, weird thoughts, life, death, and all the messy, beautiful parts of being human.

Hosted by me, Carly Osman-Holme, on a quest to dodge a full-blown existential crisis. I’ve reached that point in life where I’m asking the big questions: How did I get here? What do I actually want? And why didn’t they teach us any of this in school?