{"id":141913,"date":"2025-05-29T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141913\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:09:15","slug":"researchers-work-to-make-glp-1-medications-available-in-pill-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141913\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers work to make GLP-1 medications available in pill form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST MICHIGAN \u2014 Used as treatments for type 2 diabetes, blood sugar control and weight loss, researchers are working to take the popular GLP-1 medications from being just an inject-able medication to pill form. Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound are medications that mimic the effects of natural hormones called Glucagon-like Peptide-1. Dr. Celia Egan with True Women&#8217;s Health discusses the advancements with the treatment and how a pill form could mean for those with a GLP-1 prescription.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the women&#8217;s healthcare organization, go to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/truewomenshealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">truewomenshealth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/news\/morning-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Read more stories from the FOX 17 Morning News team<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you have an idea for the Morning News team or maybe an idea for a guest segment or something for the gang to come out and try? Send them an email at <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/news\/morning-news\/mailto:mornings@fox17online.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 164, 226); text-decoration: none;\">mornings@fox17online.com<\/a> or call 616-447-5252 and leave a message.<\/p>\n<p><b>Follow FOX 17:<\/b> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fox17online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> &#8211; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X (formerly Twitter)<\/a> &#8211; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fox17online\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> &#8211; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/wxmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST MICHIGAN \u2014 Used as treatments for type 2 diabetes, blood sugar control and weight loss, researchers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[6579,33116,33117,17837,105,4326,3912,33118,22007,370,16,15,10891,33119,6795,22501,34627],"class_list":{"0":"post-141913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-drug","9":"tag-fox-17","10":"tag-fox-17-morning-news","11":"tag-glp1","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-medication","14":"tag-medicine","15":"tag-morning-news","16":"tag-mounjaro","17":"tag-ozempic","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wegovy","21":"tag-west-michigan","22":"tag-womens-health","23":"tag-your-health","24":"tag-zepbound"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114592229919570486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}