This Is My Journey | The GLP-1 Podcast
By Marc McKee | My Journey with Marc™
Categories: Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health
This Is My Journey is a UK podcast about life on weight loss medication: Mounjaro, Wegovy and Ozempic. Honest, evidence-led and free of judgement. Hosted by Marc McKee, the creator behind My Journey with Marc, each episode brings together health and wellness professionals and people with real lived experience to talk about what actually changes lives: weight loss on Mounjaro and other GLP-1 medication, food, sleep, mental health, confidence, and life after transformation. No gurus. No shortcuts. No shame. Just straight answers from people who’ve lived it and experts who understand it. A UK Top 10 Apple Podcasts health show, listened to in over 100 countries. 🎧 New episodes every Tuesday, 6am UK.
32 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Hair Shedding After Rapid Weight Loss: A Dermatologist Explains (with Dr Aamna Adel)
Last October researchers presented one of the largest studies ever done on this. Nearly 548,000 matched pairs, comparing people on GLP-1 medication against people who were not. At twelve months, the GLP-1 group had 76 per cent higher odds of telogen effluvium, the shedding kind of hair loss, and…
- Aesthetics After Weight Loss: Who to Trust With Your Face (with Olivia Falcon)
A whole generation of people are coming off GLP-1 medications, looking in the mirror and wondering what to do about what they see. In this episode I'm joined by Olivia Falcon, an award-winning journalist and the founder of The Editor's List, the UK's leading cosmetic concierge. Olivia is the…
- Relationships on Mounjaro: When One of You Changes (with Jonathan Van Viegen)
When you change on a GLP-1, everyone asks how you are doing. Nobody asks your partner. In 2023 there were 102,678 divorces in England and Wales, and the marriages that ended had lasted a median of twelve point seven years. These were not whirlwind mistakes. They were long marriages, with mortgages…
- Telling People You're on Mounjaro: Dating and Identity (with Dr Treena Orchard)
Ninety-one per cent of people who have actually taken these medications would recommend them to a friend who was struggling with their weight. Now ask those same people whether they've told their friends they're on it. That figure comes from a survey of nearly thirteen hundred UK adults published…
- Muscle Loss on Mounjaro: How to Protect It (with Dr Ash Bowden)
Sport England's Active Lives survey puts it starkly: 11.8 million adults in England, nearly one in four of us, are classed as inactive. That means less than thirty minutes of moderate movement in an entire week. Now put that next to what happens on GLP-1 medication. In the STEP 1 trial of…
- Loose Skin and Ozempic Face After Weight Loss (with Dr Frank Agullo)
The volume goes. The skin envelope stays. And there is a line somewhere between what a good skincare routine can do and what only an operating theatre can do, a line almost nobody in the beauty industry has any commercial interest in drawing clearly for you. Here's something that might surprise…
- HRT, Mounjaro and the Heart in Midlife (with Dr Komal Patil-Sisodia)
Coronary heart disease kills more than twice as many women in the UK as breast cancer. More than 800,000 UK women are living with it right now. And if you asked most women in midlife what they should be most worried about, I don't think heart disease is the answer you'd get. Menopause changes…
- Hair Loss on Mounjaro: What Actually Helps (with Nyrah Saleem)
It's not the nausea people find hardest. It's the hair. A systematic review published in April 2026 pulled together twenty-four studies and found hair loss occurred at six cases per thousand patient-years on GLP-1 medication, against zero point eight on placebo. More than a three-fold increase…
- The Weight Loss Drug After Mounjaro: Retatrutide (with Dr Fatima Cody Stanford)
A billion people worldwide are living with obesity. The medications finally work. And fewer than one in ten of the people who could benefit will get them by 2030. In this episode I'm joined by Dr Fatima Cody Stanford, obesity medicine physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and…
- Mounjaro and Your Gut: What GLP-1s Really Do (with Dr Karan Rajan)
Three quarters of people in the semaglutide trials had a gastrointestinal side effect. Only four per cent of UK adults were eating enough fibre before any of this started. So we've put millions of people on a medication that slows the gut down, in a country that was already barely eating any…
- Pancreatitis and Gallstones on Mounjaro: One Woman's Story (with Anna Cadman)
Anna normally refuses to go to hospital. The night the pain moved from her side to her chest and she could not stop being sick, she called one. Five days later she was still on a surgical ward. Gallstones, an infected gallbladder, jaundice, and pancreatitis from a blocked duct. In the episode we…
- When Friends Change Towards You After Weight Loss (with Emma Cottey & Rue Ndabalime)
Two members of staff had to shove a roller coaster seat shut around Emma while her five year old sat beside her. The bruise she got climbing out is what made her act. Support is not a soft extra. A UCL study followed 182 bariatric surgery candidates. Those who saw between one and five friends a…
- Skin Removal Surgery After Weight Loss: When Is It the Right Call? (with Dr Gediminas Samulėnas)
You wake up from the surgery, you look down, and there is no way back. Nobody prepares you for that part. I lost 126lbs in about ten months on a GLP-1, and nobody warns you about what the skin does afterwards. Skin does not contract. In the UK an abdominoplasty is regarded as cosmetic surgery and…
- Loose Skin After Losing 126lbs: What Skincare Can and Can't Do
I spent months rubbing creams into my stomach, braced for the loose skin to show up there. It was my face and my neck that changed. An estimated 1.6 million adults in Great Britain used a GLP-1 for weight loss in the year to early 2025, and almost none of them are told what happens to their skin…
- 8 Stone Down and Pre-Diabetes Reversed on Mounjaro (with James Taylor)
He managed a clothes shop and could no longer buy clothes in one. Everything came from the internet. 5XL, 52 inch waist. In the Diabetes Prevention Program, people at high risk who lost an average of five point six kilos through diet and activity cut their chance of developing type 2 diabetes by…
- Is Obesity a Disease or a Choice? A Doctor Who Lived It (with Dr Sachin Khunti)
Three chocolate bars from the school vending machine, then the chicken shop on the way home. He says it never felt deliberate. It was just normal. England’s National Child Measurement Programme measures over a million children a year. In 2023 to 2024 it found nine point six percent living with…
- The Most Common Mounjaro Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (with Dr Mike Herring)
Your first injection is not meant to make you lose weight. It is there to find out whether you can tolerate the drug at all. Most mistakes on a GLP-1 start with a misunderstanding of what the medication is for. In the STEP 1 trial extension, people who had lost an average of seventeen point three…
- Black Market Mounjaro: The Real Risks of Unregulated Jabs (with Hira Malik, Oushk Pharmacy)
Nobody would spoon an unlabelled bottle into their child and call it Calpol. Plenty of people will inject an unlabelled vial and call it Mounjaro. Take retatrutide. Eli Lilly, which is developing it, says it is investigational, not approved by any regulatory agency in the world, and that no one…
- After the Mounjaro Prescription: The Support Nobody Gives You (with Aja Beckett, Shotsy)
Getting the medication is the part everybody fights for. Then the box is in your hands, the pharmacy wishes you luck, and that is where the help stops. A Cleveland Clinic study of 7,881 adults on semaglutide or tirzepatide, published in Obesity in June 2025, found 20.4 per cent stopped inside…
- Supplements and Nutrition on Mounjaro: What You Actually Need (with Dr Adam Jameson)
For the first year all I cared about was the number on the scales going down. Nobody warned me the thinning hair and the flat, foggy days might be a nutrition problem rather than a medication one. A retrospective study published in Obesity Pillars in June 2025 found 22.4 per cent of adults newly…
- Gallstones on Mounjaro: Does the Medication Cause Them? (with Amie Moore)
Three hours on her hands and knees, screaming. Then the drive to hospital. Amie was told twice it was gastritis and sent home with antibiotics. On the third visit she told them what she thought it was, and the scan agreed. Her gallbladder came out as an emergency. We recorded this days later. By…
- Cold Therapy and Recovery on a Weight Loss Journey: Does It Help? (with Nathan Hindle, Brysk)
Minus 87 degrees Celsius. That is what I stepped into in a Manchester studio, and the red light, hyperbaric oxygen and compression boots came after. Does any of it help someone losing the pounds on a GLP-1? Nathan’s answer is that the body goes into protection mode at minus 87, blood vessels…
- Maintenance After Losing 126lbs: What Nobody Tells You (with Rue Ndabalime & Emma Cottey)
My doctor told me I might not make forty. Fifteen months later I was a hundred and twenty six pounds down, fifty seven kilograms, from twenty three point four stone to fourteen point seven stone. That is the part people clap for. Here is the part nobody films. In the SURMOUNT-4 withdrawal trial…
- Life After Losing 50kg: Fear of Regain and a Body That Feels New (with Brandon Gee)
If you cycled from Edinburgh to London and fell off halfway, you would not go back to Edinburgh to start again. Brandon Gee lost eight stone, three of them in his first two months. Then he switched medication, fell out of routine and put a stone and a half back on. He has lost half a stone of it…
- Exercise on Mounjaro: Where to Start When You Have No Energy (with Mitch O'Callaghan)
“I’ll start exercising once I lose the weight.” I spent years saying it. Mitch O’Callaghan’s answer: if you did nothing last week, zero is an easy number to beat. Mitch says the medication is not what costs you muscle. It does not make you lose muscle, or fat. It makes it easier to eat less and…
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