{"id":222704,"date":"2025-09-30T12:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/your-pancreas-may-be-making-its-own-version-of-ozempic"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:11:53","slug":"your-pancreas-may-be-making-its-own-version-of-ozempic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/your-pancreas-may-be-making-its-own-version-of-ozempic","title":{"rendered":"Your pancreas may be making its own version of Ozempic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-pancreas-may-be-making-its-own-version-of-ozempic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alpha cells in the pancreas can produce GLP1, not just glucagon, offering a surprising backup system for blood sugar control.<\/p>\n<p>Duke University scientists have discovered that pancreatic alpha cells, long believed to only produce glucagon, actually generate powerful amounts of GLP-1 \u2014 the same hormone mimicked by popular diabetes drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy). Even more surprisingly, when glucagon production is blocked, alpha cells \u201cswitch gears\u201d and boost GLP-1 output, enhancing insulin release and blood sugar control.<\/p>\n<p>A new study from Duke University School of Medicine is challenging long-standing views on blood sugar regulation \u2014 and pointing to a surprising new ally in the fight against type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha cells in the pancreas can produce GLP1, not just glucagon, offering a surprising backup system for blood sugar control. Duke University scientists have discovered that pancreatic alpha cells, long believed to only produce glucagon, actually generate powerful amounts of GLP-1 \u2014 the same hormone mimicked by popular diabetes drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy). [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222704","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}