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  • Published: 25 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781911742296
  • Imprint: Torva
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $45.00

Let Your Body Do The Work

Activate Your Naturally Occurring Weight Loss Hormones for Long-Term Health



A guide for activating your body’s natural weight-loss hormones without the expensive medication or jabs by Dr Anette Sams, the former director of the pharmaceutical company behind Wegovy and Ozempic.

Why the need for expensive injections and medication – when we can simple educate ourselves about our bodies and hormones – and reap the same life-changing health and weight loss benefits?

Let Your Body Do The Work is a groundbreaking handbook for advice on how to lose weight naturally and find the freedom to take charge of your health, for life – the natural, sustainable way – written by the former director of the pharmaceutical company behind Wegovy and Ozempic.

Using revolutionary scientific research on the gut’s role in metabolic regulation, Anette Sams explains how to trigger natural GLP-1 hormones in your body. Let Your Body do The Work shows us how we can produce weight-loss hormones, where and how GLP-1 works, so we can build better health long-term. She shares the simple food and lifestyle choices you can make that will make all the difference – breaking free from the ultra-processed diet the modern world survives upon – which prevents food from reaching areas of the gut where natural weight-loss hormones are produced.

  • Published: 25 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781911742296
  • Imprint: Torva
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Anette Sams

Anette Sams, PhD, is a bestselling author and the former Director of Diabetes Complications Biology at Novo Nordisk. She is currently Affiliate Associate Professor in Translational and Clinical Pharmacology at Copenhagen University, and the author of The Truth About Sugar and Leaving Diabetes 2 Behind. Her latest book, Let Your Body Do the Work, was an instant bestseller in Denmark.

Praise for Let Your Body Do The Work

'The most important GLP-1 conversation no one is having.'

David Perlmutter, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author

'A clear-eyed, science-driven reframing of weight and health, Let Your Body Do the Work explains how modern food and lifestyle disrupt our natural biology, and how working with your body can restore agency, dignity, and lasting metabolic health.'

Uma Naidoo, MD, MPH - Nutritional Psychiatrist, Chef, Nutritional Biologist & author of Calm Your Mind with Food

'As obesity, insulin resistance, and metabolic disease reach crisis levels worldwide, Anette Sams delivers a timely and hopeful message: your body is not broken, it is under-supported. With clarity and compassion, she shows how modern food and lifestyle choices silence our innate health mechanisms, and how simple, evidence-based changes can reactivate them. This book needs to be center stage in today’s conversation about health.'

David Perlmutter, MD, Author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain, and Brain Defenders

'In Let Your Body Do the Work, the uniquely qualified and expert Dr Anette Sams gives all due credit to the GLP-1 breakthrough- to which she contributed- while also providing science-backed ways to achieve the very same metabolic benefits without costly medications. She empowers readers with the clear, rarefied information to make the best personal choice. This is a book that can help elevate first your knowledge and understanding- and then your health, and the quality of your life.'

David L. Katz, MD, MPH - Author, Founder of the Yale University Prevention Research Center