My teenage daughter asked me if she would ever need to take what I take.

My daughter is 16, at a healthy weight, curious. She'd been watching me lose weight for 14 months and asked the question genuinely, not anxiously. The honest answer is I don't know. There's emerging data on adolescent prescribing. There's a genetic component to obesity. There's a world where the answer is yes and a world where it's never relevant to her. What I didn't want to do was make her afraid of her body preemptively or make a medication sound like a failure. What I also didn't want to do was dismiss a legitimate question with a non-answer. I said something about how medicine was changing and how the most important thing was knowing your own body and having a doctor you trusted. It wasn't wrong. It also wasn't what she actually asked.