{"id":213144,"date":"2025-05-03T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-may-have-found-a-natural-alternative-to-ozempic"},"modified":"2025-05-03T01:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:03:27","slug":"scientists-may-have-found-a-natural-alternative-to-ozempic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-may-have-found-a-natural-alternative-to-ozempic","title":{"rendered":"Scientists May Have Found a Natural Alternative to Ozempic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k1j6Sw8vPE0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists may have identified a way to naturally regulate blood sugar levels and sugar cravings in a similar fashion to drugs like Ozempic.<\/p>\n<p>In mice and humans, the key to unlocking this natural process was found to be a gut microbe and its metabolites \u2013 the compounds it produces during digestion.<\/p>\n<p>By increasing the abundance of this one gut microbe in diabetic mice, researchers led by a team at Jiangnan University in China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41564-024-01902-8\" rel=\"nofollow\"> showed<\/a> they can \u201corchestrate the secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists may have identified a way to naturally regulate blood sugar levels and sugar cravings in a similar fashion to drugs like Ozempic. In mice and humans, the key to unlocking this natural process was found to be a gut microbe and its metabolites \u2013 the compounds it produces during digestion. By increasing the abundance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}