{"id":56140,"date":"2025-06-05T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/are-weight-loss-jabs-worth-the-side-effects\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:37:06","slug":"are-weight-loss-jabs-worth-the-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/are-weight-loss-jabs-worth-the-side-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Are weight-loss jabs worth the side effects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A woman who purchased weight-loss jab Mounjaro online says she is now considering coming off the drug, as she believe it is causing her to lose hair. Rebecca Quarmby lost two stone (12.7kg) on a Slimming World programme, but decided to opt for the jab to lose further weight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She told the BBC&#8217;s Natalie Bell that she doesn&#8217;t believe her GP would have prescribed the jab, had she approached them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Hair loss is listed as a &#8220;common&#8221; side effect, according to Mounjaro&#8217;s patient information leaflet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">There are also other concerns related to the jab, with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency warning the drug could make contraceptive pills less likely to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn0gp2pl7zwo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on this story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cx2q1d6xp54o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who purchased weight-loss jab Mounjaro online says she is now considering coming off the drug, as she believe it is causing her to lose hair. Rebecca Quarmby lost two stone (12.7kg) on a Slimming World programme, but decided to opt for the jab to lose further weight. She told the BBC&#8217;s Natalie Bell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64],"tags":[7645,2787,2064,13934,3967],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56142,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions\/56142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}