{"id":123148,"date":"2025-11-08T23:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/123148\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:36:15","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-ozempic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/123148\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pros and Cons of Ozempic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hankgreen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Hank Green<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=SciShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">SciShow<\/a> looked at increasingly popular <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semaglutide\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Semaglutide<\/a> medications such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozempic.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Ozempic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wegovy.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Wegovy<\/a>, and explained both the pros and the cons of these <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/treatments\/13901-glp-1-agonists\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">GLP-1 agonists<\/a> on the human body. Pros include weight loss, blood sugar control, and heart and brain function improvement. Cons include gastrointestinal distress, birth control nullification, vision problems, and conflicting information regarding bone development.<\/p>\n<p>Semaglutide, the drug famously sold under brand names like Ozempic and Wegovy, has boomed in popularity in just a handful of years. It\u2019s not limited to doing just one thing inside your body\u2026 making it a double-edged sword with both benefits \/and\/ risks. We\u2019re starting to learn what all those things are, and while some of it is great, some of it is less great. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1130\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ozempic-Semaglutide.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ozempic Semaglutide\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hank Green\u00a0of\u00a0SciShow looked at increasingly popular Semaglutide medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy, and explained both the pros&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":{"0":"post-123148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}