{"id":126286,"date":"2025-11-09T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126286\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:47:07","slug":"thedacare-urges-caution-when-stopping-use-of-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126286\/","title":{"rendered":"ThedaCare Urges Caution When Stopping Use of Weight Loss Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Nov 8, 2025 | 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seehafernews.com\/category\/local-news\" class=\"byline_category\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seehafernews.com\/category\/ryan-brahm\" class=\"byline_category\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Brahm<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thedacare.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"ThedaCare Urges Caution When Stopping Use of Weight Loss Drugs\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>ThedaCare is encouraging those who are ending their use of weight loss drugs to do so carefully.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an uptick in the number of people using GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic or Wegovy, which were designed to help manage blood sugar and glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Later, they were also discovered to slow digestion and suppress appetite.<\/p>\n<p>This may help people eat less, which helps treat obesity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.thedacare.org\/provider\/benjamin-duffy-do\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Benjamin Duffy<\/a>, an obesity medicine specialist and director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thedacare.org\/services\/weight-loss-solutions\/access-weight-loss-solutions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ThedaCare Weight Wellness Solutions program<\/a>, notes that the average Wisconsinite who uses these drugs does so for seven months, then they often discontinue the drug or switch to a lower, maintenance dose.<\/p>\n<p>As patients begin to wean themselves, doing so the proper way is the key to not immediately gain the weight back.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Duffy and his team try to \u201chelp people taper off their treatment dose over about two months so that as their appetite slowly increases, so does their metabolism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those looking to start a healthy weight loss journey can learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/thedacare.org\/services\/weight-loss-solutions\/access-weight-loss-solutions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ThedaCare.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Nov 8, 2025 | 6:00 PM &#13; Local News, Ryan Brahm ThedaCare is encouraging those who are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2252,3795,3685,4975,134,440,87831,524,111,43,139,69,18995,87830,13672],"class_list":{"0":"post-126286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-births","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-free","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-manitowoc","15":"tag-medication","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-obituaries","21":"tag-seehafer","22":"tag-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}