{"id":568081,"date":"2026-03-29T06:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568081\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:13:11","slug":"what-ozempic-and-other-glp-1-weight-loss-drugs-do-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568081\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ozempic and other GLP-1 weight loss drugs do the body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"T6SKK5ZQKNBG7BYFEZYJ25RVQI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Humans have long dreamed of a cure-all.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UQQZSSL7PZD2JMQQY5OBKNLWRQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In Greek mythology, the goddess Panacea carried a potion that could heal any disease. Chinese alchemists during the Tang Dynasty sought an \u201celixir of life\u201d to grant immortality. In the late 19th century, radium, newly discovered by Marie Curie, was hailed as a miracle ingredient \u2014 mixed into lotions, candies, even toothpaste \u2014 before researchers realized it could also kill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humans have long dreamed of a cure-all. In Greek mythology, the goddess Panacea carried a potion that could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":["post-568081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}