Podcast Live: The Life Sci Fantastic – weight-loss jabs: the end of willpower?

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The Life Sci Fantastic is the podcast pulling back the curtain on the scientific breakthroughs changing our lives, hosted by Eliot Forster — scientist, entrepreneur and 30-year veteran of biotech. Each episode dives into the science of the innovations reshaping modern medicine. With leading experts as his guests, Eliot makes complex discoveries clear, relatable and inspiring — showing how today’s research is transforming tomorrow’s treatments.

If medication can quieten hunger, what does that mean for our ideas about willpower and personal responsibility? In this live recording, Eliot Forster is joined by nutrition scientist Dr Federica Amati to explore her new book, The Appetite Reset. From gut signals and modern diets to the promise and limits of weight-loss jabs, they ask what really shapes our appetite – and whether the pursuit of a slimmer body is distracting us from better health.