{"id":49765,"date":"2025-07-21T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49765"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:39:49","slug":"medication-semaglutide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/medication-semaglutide\/","title":{"rendered":"Medication: semaglutide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about medications: the tutor looks into semaglutide.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nSemaglutide is the active medication in Ozempic and Wegovy. Semaglutide is meant to take four actions: reduce appetite, slow digestion, increase insulin secretion (depending on blood sugar), and suppress glucagon release.<\/p>\n<p>\nHow semaglutide reduces appetite, and what the motivation would be to suppress glucagon release, are points of interest, hopefully for future posts.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/diet.mayoclinic.org\/us\/blog\/2024\/how-does-semaglutide-work\/\">diet.mayoclinic.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/drugs\/19011-semaglutide-injection\">my.clevelandclinic.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about medications: the tutor looks into semaglutide. The following is my understanding. Semaglutide is the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/medication-semaglutide\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medication: semaglutide<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49770,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49765\/revisions\/49770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}