Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

Post by op00to » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

throwawaylaptop wrote: post #142

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It's great because we had no other way to address this problem at a population level. Not any realistic ones, anyway. Like, I figured we were just never going to solve it, given the two possibilities were "radically re-engineer US culture such that moving to the US doesn't make previously-skinny people fatter" (with other countries heading the same direction as us needing to make similar moves, one supposes) or "find…

I helped my dad lose 50 lbs by finally, after 10 years, getting him to give up bread, sugar, potatoes. It took buying him 2 months of a bluetooth glucose monitor. Once he saw what certain foods do, he believed me finally. At 65 years old, healthier than I remember since he was 40 and I was a teen. It doesn't require some weird injection.

Post by tjader » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 11:06 PM UTC

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Inaccurate in my opinion. Let's say you eat 2500 calories a day usually. But you want to lose weight so you reduce it to 1800. Except your calories are from pop tarts. If you ate 100 calories of pop tarts every hour you're awake for total of 1800 calories... At the end of the month you'd be fatter. If you ate 1800 calories of pop tarts once a day in 1 hour, you might maintain weight or loose a little. Maybe. If you h…

> If you ate 100 calories of pop tarts every hour you're awake for total of 1800 calories... At the end of the month you'd be fatter. This is thermodynamically impossible unless your daily calorie use is less then 1800 calories.

Post by rockemsockem » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 11:09 PM UTC

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There's anecdotes, and there's science. Individually, there's (previously) been nothing better to suggest than "try harder (and, maybe, smarter)". Statistically it was almost useless, but it's the best we had. It's not bad advice exactly, it's just extremely unlikely to work for long-term, sustained weight loss. It also very much appears to be the case that weight gain and loss are heavily influenced by environmental…

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Post by eggsboenk » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 11:13 PM UTC

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I find it fascinating how much a pretty large group of people just hate semaglutides and seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain. I'm not talking about the people who are cautious or suspicious, that's more than reasonable, but it's clear that it's not cautious optimism in many.

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Post by leoh » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 11:18 PM UTC

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This is specifically a study on people with HIV-associated lipohypertrophy, which is associated with accelerated aging. Not clear what this would mean for people generally.