You Might Be Taking Your GLP-1 All Wrong: How to Successfully Take Weight Loss Drugs, The Truth About Microdosing, and Side Effects You Need to Know About with Dr. Tyna Moore

Dhru Purohit (0:00)

Dr. Tyna, welcome back to the podcast. For those that are unaware, you were on the podcast super early when there was this big debate of, are these Glp-1 drugs going to be something that radically helps improve our health and reduces obesity and improves metabolic health? And yes, there are some concerns, but we can manage those concerns, or a lot of people in this space were worried. Are these drugs gonna give us cancer? Are they gonna make us blind? Or are they gonna be the downfall of society? Because you know what? There's no free lunch. It can't be that easy. It can't be that straightforward. And now, August 2026, so many individuals that are out there that were really sounding alarm that these drugs are gonna be the downfall of modern society. Respectfully, a lot of them have come out and said, hey, as I've gotten further into it, and I've especially had friends go through and take some of these drugs who needed it, I've changed my mind and I've been more open-minded. And largely, I see the benefit that they're bringing and also the pipeline of drugs that are gonna be coming down the line, that are gonna continue to get better, to really help with the most dangerous and tough things, which is that modern society and modern process food and overuse of indoor light and lack of sun and lack of community, all these things are driving so much food noise and so much confusion in the body that people's systems have been hijacked. And a lot of people, even if they weren't super overweight, needed a little bit of a boost, needed a little bit of a step to help usher in a new stage of health for themselves. So that's kind of how I've seen a lot of this. Did I get that right? And anything else you wanna add to the state of the union Glp-1 drugs in 2026, August 2026?

Tyna Moore (1:59)

Yeah, I think a lot has transpired and I've weaved and dodged through it. I think early on I took a lot of bullets and a lot of heat that no one else was willing to take. And I think I kind of opened that door to make it okay that we have this conversation and that people were like, I kind of changed my mind around Glp-1s. And so I've been glad to be able to do that for people. I feel like a lot of it's gotten misconstrued and it's gotten out of control. I think the inmates are running the asylum a little bit in some areas. There's some really remarkable things happening in this space. It's not all, you know, unicorns and butterflies. And it doesn't mean that there's not hard work involved still. But I think that these peptides and medications have some amazing potential that we're just starting to discover.

Dhru Purohit (2:42)

On the note of changing their minds, you're a huge part of that. After the episode where you were on, I hired from so many of my audience members that they so appreciated the discussion and they felt like they were now open to their family members exploring it or they might be considering it. I have no connections to any of this. Like I'm not invested in anything. Like I just want to like learn and have our audience learn. This is why I've had you on. You know, sometimes when you start talking about things, we were like, oh, like what secret sort of thing do you have out there? You know, I don't have anything out there. You have no skin in the game besides educating people and wanting to have their health be better.

Tyna Moore (3:22)

Yep, and I mean, no ties, no conflicts of interest. In fact, I've turned down in the past few years, I have turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars in offers to work with different telemedicine companies and different GLP-1 suppliers. No, in fact, I think Big Pharma took my Instagram account down in 2024 after we last spoke, or I think I told you about it at the time, so I don't think I'm their friend.

Dhru Purohit (3:44)

Yeah, well, we so appreciate that. And I think it's important to talk about these things in the beginning. So now that we have established a little bit of background, catching people up who may not be privy to our prior episode or what the state of the world is around this topic, and we've established that there's no conflicts of interest that are going on over here. We're just here to have a discussion and have you drive education.

What is most top of mind in this day and age when you say the inmates are running the asylum? What do you mean by that?