{"id":760238,"date":"2026-06-25T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:17:08","slug":"unapproved-peptides-and-black-market-weight-loss-drugs-fuel-rise-in-hospitalisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760238\/","title":{"rendered":"Unapproved peptides and black-market weight-loss drugs fuel rise in hospitalisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors extol their virtues on popular podcasts while social media influencers wax lyrical about their transformative powers, but the evidence that unapproved peptides work is virtually non-existent, and significant harms are stacking up.<\/p>\n<p>Six people in Victoria have experienced acute liver toxicity this year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.vic.gov.au\/health-alerts\/toxicity-linked-to-unapproved-peptide-retatrutide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">taking an unapproved peptide labelled as Retatrutide<\/a>, and similar cases are believed to have been reported elsewhere in Australia, the Victorian Department of Health confirmed last week.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctors extol their virtues on popular podcasts while social media influencers wax lyrical about their transformative powers, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":["post-760238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}