{"id":746540,"date":"2026-06-19T04:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/746540\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:43:08","slug":"patients-discover-unexpected-benefits-of-glp-1-drugs-like-ozempic-wegovy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/746540\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients discover unexpected benefits of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) &#8211; Botox was originally intended for treating uncontrollable eyelid twitches. Viagra was a drug to treat high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sometimes drugs approved for one use are discovered be useful in other ways. This is proving true for the drug that\u2019s all the rage right now, GLP-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are helping people lose 5 to 15 percent of their body weight. And patients are reporting beneficial side effects that aren\u2019t related to the weight loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Brad (not a real doctor) explores how GLP-1 drugs work and the dramatic benefits that are just now being realized.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBAY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) &#8211; Botox was originally intended for treating uncontrollable eyelid twitches. Viagra was a drug&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":["post-746540","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\/746540","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=746540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}