Josh Gad at the 2024 Tony Awards in New York City.Photo:Jamie McCarthy/WireImage
Jamie McCarthy/WireImage
Josh Gadshared that he’s taking a GLP-1 medication for weight loss, praising it as a “miracle drug” that will help him “be there for my kids.”
“I’m on a GLP-1…this is the first time I’ve opened up about this,” theFrozenstar, 43, toldDax ShepardandMonica Padmanon the Jan. 27 episode ofArmchair Expert.
“It has suppressed, in a great way, that noise … when I wake up, I feel hunger pains — and so much of that is psychological, right? — and what this does is it takes away that signal,” Gad said of the medication.GLP-1is short for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, which work in the brain to impact satiety. Popular brands areOzempicandMounjaro.
Josh Gad talks to Dax Shepard and Monica Padman on “Armchair Expert.".Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard/Youtube
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard/Youtube
“It is a miracle drug,” he said, sharing that he’d lost 40 lbs. on a different drug, but had to switch after his former medication caused him to develop diverticulitis, an inflammation of irregular building pouches in the colon, according to theMayo Clinic.
“I was really bummed out because it was working incredibly for me and I had to switch,” said Gad, who just released his memoirIn Gad We Trust.“So, like, I’m you know figuring out this new one, and it is life-changing, but it also doesn’t negate the fact that it can’t be in the place of having a healthy relationship with food.”
Gad added, “It can’t be in the place of having a healthy relationship with exercise.”
Josh Gad and wife Ida Darvish with their two daughters Ava and Isabella in August 2023.Josh Gad/ Instagram
Josh Gad/ Instagram
Gad, who shares daughtersAva, 14, and Isabella, 10with wife,Ida Darvish,said his wife is “not thrilled” that he takes it. When Shepard asked if “she’s worried you’re not going to confront the core thing that’s driving” weight gain, Gad said yes.
Gad explained he did have one concern with weight loss, saying, “I’ve always been the funny fat guy. Can I be the funny skinny guy? Can I be the hot leading man?”
“I don’t know that people would accept me as those things,” he said, adding that future roles are less of a concern “as I go on this journey of weight loss.”
“I’m not as worried about that because my primary goal is, I want to be there for my kids,” Gad said. “Everything else is bulls—t.”
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