(03/30/27 PREORDER) Magic Pill: Why the New Weight-Loss Drugs May Be Your Best Option in a Broken Food System

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus makes the case that the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it may offer the best chance to heal our society’s dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies.

In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, one of the new drugs that produces significant weight loss. He wasn’t alone—as of 2025, nearly 12% of Americans, over 41 million people, have used a GLP-1 medication at some point in their lives. Still, Hari was wildly conflicted. Could these drugs really be as good as they sounded? Are the drugs a liberation or a further symptom of our deeply dysfunctional relationship with food? Were they a magic solution—or a magic trick?

Finding the answer to this high-stakes question led him on a journey from Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo, interviewing the leading experts in the world on these drugs, and discovering that alongside the drugs’ massive benefits come hugely significant risks. These drugs have already begun to change our world scientifically, emotionally, and culturally, for better and for worse. Magic Pill is a compellingly personal investigation into and wildly illuminating guide for navigating the GLP-1 revolution that has only just begun.