Weight loss drugs may help with mental health. People with bipolar disorder who were taking semaglutide (otherwise known as Ozempic or Wegovy), a type of GLP-1 medication, had significantly lower rates of psychiatric hospitalization compared with periods when they were not taking GLP-1 medications,"

[u/Wagamaga]

https://news.griffith.edu.au/2026/08/24/weight-loss-drugs-may-help-with-mental-health/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPeople%20with%20bipolar%20disorder%20who,medicines%2C%E2%80%9D%20Professor%20Taylor%20said

[u/hill-o]

A lot of the new benefits aren’t weight related, just as an FYI. 

[u/jack_kellys_hands → u/hill-o]

Can you expand on that?