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Founder; Host of The Prof G Pod; Co-host of Pivot and Prof G Markets, Prof G Media
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The Real Downside of GLP-1 Drugs (And Why Scott's Still Bullish) | Office Hours

📅 Apr 17, 2026 The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway 18 MIN 29926 VIEWS 10 SEGMENTS · 3 SPEAKERS
Scott Galloway addresses concerns about muscle loss on GLP-1 drugs and explains why he's still bullish, unpacks the financial and emotional strain of supporting aging family members, and makes the case for putting the pedal down on your career before it's too late. Want to be featured in a future episode? Send a voice recording to [email protected], or drop your question in the r/ScottGalloway subreddit: https://bit.ly/3PGtUfm Timestamps: 00:00 - In This Episode 01:01 - Trade-offs of GLP-1s 07:41 - Caring for Aging Parents While Raising Kids 12:29 - Working Moms, Ambition, and Famil...

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  1. 12:31But what's the sequence? What would you recommend?
Scott Galloway 0:00 ↗
Money solves a lot of problems with kids. And I know how terrible that sounds. Yeah. It gets them tutors if you need it. It gets them after-school athletic programs. It gets better health care. You know, a lot of these problems are the problems that come up. Money just lubricates a lot about raising children. That's just the bottom line. And at 38, you're the sweet spot professionally. I had my first kid at 42. The first three, four years of their lives, I saw them, but not a lot because I was freaked out about money. I was doing really well professionally and I thought the extra 20% of effort, you know, instead of working 50 hours, working 60 hours, got me probably 50 to 100% more income, such that I could have a dramatic amount of balance in my life. Now, in today's office hours, we discuss the trade-off of GLP-1s, caring for aging parents while raising kids, and how working moms can sequence ambition and family life. Like, I'm qualified to answer that. Anyways, question number one comes from Hillary from California.
Hillary Beach 1:03 ↗
Hi, Scott. It's Hillary Beach calling you from California with a question about GLP-1 drugs. You've been an extremely strong advocate for the value of these drugs, but the more I learn, the more I'm concerned about them. When I had Claude do a research summary, it came back with 30 to 40% of weight loss being muscle, and that you would need to do resistance training three to five days a week and take in 1.6 to 2.3 grams of protein per kilo of fat-free mass to counter this effect, which sounds pretty daunting to most of us. So for those of us no longer youthful, as you know, muscle mass is really important to avoiding falls and maintaining our function and mobility. So assuming that you're aware of all of this and this downside risk, I wonder how you have been factoring this into your thinking about the value of taking these drugs. Thanks so much.

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Galloway, S. (2026, April 17). The Real Downside of GLP-1 Drugs (And Why Scott's Still Bullish) | Office Hours [Interview transcript]. The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3003107/

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Scott Galloway. "The Real Downside of GLP-1 Drugs (And Why Scott's Still Bullish) | Office Hours." The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway, 17 Apr. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3003107/.

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  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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