{"id":11120,"date":"2026-04-12T01:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11120"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:14:57","slug":"130201294-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11120","title":{"rendered":"Indians hunger for untested Chinese weight-loss peptides | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130201292,imgsize-443767,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Indians hunger for untested Chinese weight-loss peptides\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It begins with an Instagram reel: an influencer touting the most potent weight-loss peptides. Two taps, and the feed is flooded with peptide-fuelled weight-loss journeys. Then the descent into rabbit hole begins: YouTube explainers, AIsimplified scientific papers, Reddit thread obsessions, private chat groups.<!-- --> It ends with a shipment from China of powdered weight-loss medication, unapproved, still in trials.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Hundreds across India rely on these imports, partly to beat the prices of doctor-prescribed medications like Mounjaro, which can cost Rs 16,000 for a month. Semaglutide (brand name Ozempic) has become cheaper, but even that is unlikely to dent the market for \u201cChinese peptides\u201d. What fuels it is people\u2019s desperate hunt for ways to delay weight-loss plateaus. Even the most potent GLP-1s only work up to a point, as the gut eventually adapts to the medication.<!-- --> Stopping them leads to gradual weight regain.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/indians-hunger-for-untested-chinese-weight-loss-peptides\/articleshow\/130201294.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It begins with an Instagram reel: an influencer touting the most potent weight-loss peptides. Two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,27212,27213,723,719,720,721,7291,27214,722,27211],"class_list":["post-11120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-chinese-weight-loss-medication","tag-glp-1s","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-mounjaro","tag-semaglutide","tag-today-news","tag-weight-loss-peptides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}