{"id":573778,"date":"2026-07-29T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:35:16","slug":"is-weight-loss-drug-fear-just-history-repeating-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573778\/","title":{"rendered":"Is weight-loss drug fear just history repeating itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During a conversation on the Rapid Response show, Ro co-founder and CEO Zach Reitano pushes back on &#8216;Ozempic face&#8217; concerns. He compares them to &#8216;bicycle face&#8217;, a fake condition from the 19th century that someone invented to scare women off riding bikes. He contends that more people are clinically eligible for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs than critics acknowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a conversation on the Rapid Response show, Ro co-founder and CEO Zach Reitano pushes back on &#8216;Ozempic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[242137,103,61,60,371,242136],"class_list":["post-573778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-bicycle-face","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication","tag-zach-reitano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}