Oprah Winfrey admitted two years ago to taking diabetes medication to lose weight. Now, in a new podcast episode, she revealed that this process helped her understand slim people. Oprah Winfrey has struggled with weight issues for years.

In all, researchers found that people taking GLP-1 medications had lower risks for 42 health outcomes, including liver failure, lung failure, cardiac arrest, aspiration pneumonia and shock.

Popular GLP-1 medications approved for weight loss, diabetes, and heart disease may have untapped potential to reduce the risks of substance abuse disorders, psychosis, infections, some kinds of cancer and dementia,