When I started taking a GLP-1 medication in October, I knew it would probably change a few things—our weekly dinner plan, how my pants fit, my relationship to alcohol (initial research shows low-dose GLP-1 drug patients drink less of it). What I didn’t know was that it would make me hate some of my favorite perfumes.
— Read more in My GLP-1 Medication Changed the Way Perfume Smells to Me at Allure.
Utterly fascinating story, Robin. There is so much we still don’t know about those drugs.
I wonder about that also. While I realize for some, this is a life-saving medicine, I wonder about unintended effects, especially to the immune system.
Years ago, I was on an experimental drug treatment for Crohn’s back in 2000-2001, it saved my life but the side effects were worrisome.
And so much we still don’t know about olfaction in general.